On the Effect of the “Third-Person Effect”: Perceived Influence of Media Coverage and Residential Mobility Intentions

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Third‐Person Effects and the Environment: Social Distance, Social Desirability, and Presumed Behavior (2005, unknown): “Researchers have found no links (Gunther, 1991; Price, Tewksbury, & Huang, 1998), partial links (Atwood, 1994; Tewksbury, Moy, & Weis, 2004), and strong links (Gunther & Storey, 2003; Tsfati & Cohen, 2003) between perception and behavior.”
The SAGE handbook of persuasion : developments in theory and practice (2012, background): “Such perceptions culminated in a stronger sense of political and social alienation (Tsfati, 2007), greater political inefficacy (Tsfati & Cohen, 2005), and a stronger inclination toward relocation (Tsfati & Cohen, 2003; Tsfati & Cohen, 2005).”
A Three-Decade Retrospective on the Hostile Media Effect (2015, unknown): “…stubbornly defying the dominant public opinion climate, even engaging in undemocratic actions, and other times adopting a more passive approach, withdrawing from functional political or social activities (Gunther, Perloff, & Tsfati, 2008; Tsfati & Cohen, 2003; see also Choi, Park, & Chang, 2011).”
Presumed Influence on Peer Norms: How Mass Media Indirectly Affect Adolescent Smoking (2006, background): “Attention has only recently turned to accommodation reactions, in which people strive to adapt to perceived changes in others, and these are documented in only a few recent studies (Chia, in press; Gunther & Storey, 2003; Tsfati & Cohen, 2003).”