Beschreibung:
Self Versus Others explores the third-person effect and its role in media as a means of persuasion. This scholarly work synthesizes more than two decades of research on the third-person effect, the process in which individuals do not perceive themselves to be impacted by particular messages-such as persuaded to engage in risky behaviors or encouraged to be violent-but they believe others will be.
Contents: The Third-Person Effect. Receiver Variables. Message Variables. Source and Channel Variables. The First-Person Effect as Persuasion. Defining the Others. Systematic vs. Heuristic Processing. Understanding the Third-Person Effect as a Special Context for Persuasion.