Third-Person Effect, Gender, and Pornography on the lnternet

By Ven-Hwei Lo, Ran Wei. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Exposure to pornography among youth in Australia (2007, background): “In general, men are significantly more likely than women to view pornography frequently, to be sexually aroused by it and to have favourable attitudes towards it (Lo and Wei, 2002: 16).”
The Internet's impact on sexuality: A critical review of 15 years of research (2009, background): “…of pornography on themselves and on others, it turns out (as is observed for other media content) that there is a ‘‘third-person effect”: As a rule, people say that online pornography clearly has a more negative effect on other people than on themselves (Lee & Tamborini, 2005; Lo & Wei, 2002).”
Gender, Sexual Affect, and Motivations for Internet Pornography Use (2008, background): “…previous studies observe that men are more likely than women to prefer to watch sexually explicit material (Janssen, Carpenter, & Graham, 2003; Lo & Wei, 2002), to feel sexually aroused by these materials (Kelley, Byrne, Greendlinger, & Murnen, 1997; Mosher & MacIan, 1994), and to have…”
Adolescents’ Exposure to Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet (2006, background): “Research among both adolescents and adults suggests that exposure to sexually explicit material is socially undesirable (Cameron et al., 2005; Lo & Wei, 2002).”
Exposure to Internet Pornography and Taiwanese Adolescents' Sexual Attitudes and Behavior (2005, background): “A more recent survey of 2,628 Taiwanese high school and college students found that 88% had navigated the Internet and 44% had surfed pornographic Web sites (Lo & Wei, 2002).”
The First-Person Effect and Its Behavioral Consequences: A New Trend in the Twenty-Five Year History of Third-Person Effect Research (2008, background): “…effects that result from perception gaps related to socially undesirable media content such as pornography (Gunther, 1995; Rojas et al., 1996; Lo & Wei, 2002), misogynistic rap lyrics (McLeod, Eveland, & Nathanson, 1997), television violence (Hoffner et al., 1999) and controversial product…”