Object-subject distance and the third person perception

Yariv Tsfati; Jonathan Cohen

doi:10.1207/s1532785xmep0604_2

Object-subject distance and the third person perception

Yariv Tsfati, Jonathan Cohen

Department of Communication

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Abstract

Two studies demonstrate that third person perceptions ate less dependent on ego-defensive mechanisms than previously thought. It is argued that people use intuitive notions of media dependency when they estimate the influence of media on different groups of others. Our results show that when the "others" that are the object of media influence are close to the subject of communication, people perceive less influence. This finding joins new research contrasting with the idea of the "social distance corollary.".

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	335-361
Number of pages	27
Journal	Media Psychology
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532785xmep0604_2
State	Published - 2004

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Funding Information:
Data collection was made possible through a grant to Yariv Tsfati, Jonathan Cohen, and Eli Avraham by the Edelstein Foundation for Population Studies. The project is also funded by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. Both authors contributed equally to the preparation of the manuscript. We thank the anonymous reviewers, Nurit Tal-Or, and Eli Avraham for their helpful suggestions.

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Social Psychology
Communication
Applied Psychology

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