The Third-Person Effect: A Meta-Analysis of the Perceptual Hypothesis

By Bryant Paul, M. Salwen, Michel Dupagne. 2000

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Is the Media Biased Against Me? A Meta-Analysis of the Hostile Media Effect Research (2011, methodology): “In planning our study, we referred to the methodological procedures of Hansen and Benoit (2007) and Paul et al. (2000): (a) locating and searching the literature; (b) coding studies; (c) correcting for error, computing an average effect size, and testing for variance homogeneity; and (d)…”
A meta-analysis of factors predicting cyberbullying perpetration and victimization: From the social cognitive and media effects approach (2017, background): “One possibility for these differences might be due to the fact that most non-random samples were also respondents in niche environments (Paul et al., 2000).”
The First-Person Effect and Its Behavioral Consequences: A New Trend in the Twenty-Five Year History of Third-Person Effect Research (2008, background): “…TPE continues to solidify its position as a key media effect theory, it is important to note that whereas the TPE has been widely investigated,1 the first-person effect has received limited attention from scholars in regard to both the perceptual (Paul et al., 2000) and the behavioral components.”
How Much Do They Think It Affects Them and Whom Do They Believe?: Comparing the Third-Person Effect and Credibility of Blogs and Traditional Media (2007, background): “Such findings, while surprising, are consistent with an earlier meta-analysis finding no significant differences based on medium source (Paul et al., 2000).”
Understanding the Third‐Person Perception: Evidence From a Meta‐Analysis (2008, result): “Compared with the result from the previous meta-analysis (Paul et al., 2000), r = .50 (or d = 1.15), our analysis yields a much smaller estimate.”
Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences (2009, background): “This discrepancy between self-perception and assumptions about others is known as the perceptual hypothesis within the thirdperson effect approach (Brosius & Engel, 1996; Davison, 1983; Salwen & Dupagne, 2000).”