Efficacy beliefs in third-person effects

• Main Authors: Rosenthal, Sonny, Detenber, Benjamin H., Rojas, Hernando
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104705; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25161
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

People generally believe they are less susceptible than others to influences of media, and a growing body of research implicates such biased processing, or third-person perception, in public support for censorship, a type of third-person effect. The current study extends research of the third-person...