TY - JOUR
T1 - Not All Perceptual Gaps Were Created Equal
T2 - Explicating the Third-Person Perception (TPP) as a Cognitive Fallacy
AU - Shen, Lijiang
AU - Sun, Ye
AU - Pan, Zhongdang
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PY - 2018/7/4
Y1 - 2018/7/4
N2 - Explicating the third-person perception (TPP) as a cognitive fallacy in the process of comparative social judgment of media effects, we propose that not all self–other perceptual gaps in media effects should be considered as TPP. When there is reasonably valid and accurate information regarding self vis-à-vis others on media consumption and vulnerability to media influence, the associated self–other gaps in media effects are not exaggerations, hence, not TPP. TPP results from cognitive biases in information retrieval and application in the process of comparative social judgments. Such biases are in the forms of self-other information differential, assimilation, contrast, and anchoring effects. Caveats in interpretation of extant evidence and implications for future TPP research are discussed.
AB - Explicating the third-person perception (TPP) as a cognitive fallacy in the process of comparative social judgment of media effects, we propose that not all self–other perceptual gaps in media effects should be considered as TPP. When there is reasonably valid and accurate information regarding self vis-à-vis others on media consumption and vulnerability to media influence, the associated self–other gaps in media effects are not exaggerations, hence, not TPP. TPP results from cognitive biases in information retrieval and application in the process of comparative social judgments. Such biases are in the forms of self-other information differential, assimilation, contrast, and anchoring effects. Caveats in interpretation of extant evidence and implications for future TPP research are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/15205436.2017.1420194
DO - 10.1080/15205436.2017.1420194
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 1520-5436
VL - 21
SP - 399
EP - 424
JO - Mass Communication and Society
JF - Mass Communication and Society
IS - 4
ER -