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Publication details [#34171]

Salwen, Michael B. and Michel Dupagne. 2003. News of Y2K and Experiencing Y2K: Exploring the Relationship Between the Third-Person Effect and Optimistic Bias. Media Psychology 5 (1) : 57–82.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

mass media | message1 | psychology | third person

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

1521-3269

Annotation

This paper explores the alleged relationship between the third-person effect, which claims that people judge themselves less influenced than others by media messages, and the social psychological theory of optimistic bias.