A Self‐Categorization Explanation for the Third‐Person Effect

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Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and the Communication of Group Norms (2006, background): “Reid and Hogg (2005) provide evidence that self-categorization explains both first- (self more influenced than others) and third-person (other influenced more than self) perceptions.”
The SAGE handbook of persuasion : developments in theory and practice (2012, background): “…which treat the perceptual difference as an “error” in cognitive processing and judgment-making due to differential cognitive schema or information structure related to self and other (e.g., fundamental attribution error, Gunther, 1991; the self-categorization explanation, Reid & Hogg, 2005).”
Understanding the Third‐Person Perception: Evidence From a Meta‐Analysis (2008, background): “Greater effect of a message is allotted to a referent other presumed to have a higher likelihood of exposure (e.g., Eveland et al., 1999) or belong to a group ‘‘known’’ to have a higher level of exposure (e.g., Reid & Hogg, 2005) to the message.”