This review explicates the past, present and future of theory and research concerning
audience perceptions of the media as well as the effects that perceptions of media have on …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Media scholars as well as the public frequently use the terms “mass communication” and
“mass media”, but the meaning of these terms is often ambiguous. While it is assumed that …

Grounded in scholarship on both the perceptual and behavioral components of the third-
person effect, the present experimental study examined the effects of perceived impact of …

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 …

The perceived effect of the media on the self when compared to others has been adequately
established over the last 25 five years. Rather than a third-person effect where individuals …

This study proposed a theoretical framework by which it can be identified how media
influence and social influence interplay and produce joint effects on adolescents' …

Using survey data with a national representative of US adult women, the current study tested
both the perceptual and behavioral hypotheses for the third-person effect of online …

Focusing on the milestone 2008 US Presidential Election, this study explores how perceived
impact of polls is influenced by one's social comparison groups and perception of media …

Prior meta-analyses have found evidence for differences in the third-person effect across
message types, indicating that the third-person effect is a communication context-specific …