Effects of Light-Hearted and Serious Entertainment on Enjoyment of the First and Third Person

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
First Person ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment ◽  
The Third Person

Abstract. This was a study on the perceived enjoyment of different movie genres. In an online experiment, 176 students were randomly divided into two groups (n = 88) and asked to estimate how much they, their closest friends, and young people in general enjoyed either serious or light-hearted movies. These self–other differences in perceived enjoyment of serious or light-hearted movies were also assessed as a function of differing individual motivations underlying entertainment media consumption. The results showed a clear third-person effect for light-hearted movies and a first-person effect for serious movies. The third-person effect for light-hearted movies was moderated by level of hedonic motivation, as participants with high hedonic motivations did not perceive their own and others’ enjoyment of light-hearted films differently. However, eudaimonic motivations did not moderate first-person perceptions in the case of serious films.

Illusions of Media Power: The Third-Person Effect

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Erwin Atwood
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
First Person ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Media Power ◽  
The Third Person

This study assesses the third-person effect and its alternatives, a first-person effect and equal media effects, among a panel of respondents following the prediction of a severe earthquake and after the earthquake failed to materialize. The theoretical perspectives are provided by social comparisons and cognitive adaption theory. The findings indicate that both third-person and first-person effects result from downward social comparisons following from differences in belief in the message, accuracy of information about the predictability of earthquakes, and perception of the beliefs of others about the message. These media effects and their correlates are interpreted as illusions people create to cope with a predicted disaster and later revise to reflect situational contingencies.

scholarly journals Facebook influences you more than me: The perceived impact of social media effects among young Facebook users

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-253
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Corbu ◽  
Oana Ştefǎnițǎ ◽  
Raluca Buturoiu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
New Type ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Effect Hypothesis ◽  
The Third Person

The popularity and prevalent use of Facebook among young people are common pre­occupations for communication researchers. They focus on unveiling people’s motivations, usage be­haviour, and gratifications offered by this communication medium. However, little attention has been invested in examining how young people perceive this new type of media consumption and its effects on themselves as compared to others. Drawing on Davison’s 1983 third-person effect hypothesis, this research paper investigates the a differences in estimated Facebook effects on self versus others, b association between the desirability of the message anti-social versus pro-social and estimated Facebook effects on self versus others, and c association between the type of the message and es­timated Facebook effects on self versus others. These relationships are studied with reference to the behavioural component of the third-person effect. Results confirm that Facebook might influence the magnitude and direction of the perceptual gap of media effects.

A NARRATIVE; OR AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MOST MATERIALL PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF JOHN RASTRICK

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 26-202
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person

Although I desire that each of my children should have one Narrative of the passages of my Life, yet I desire and charge you that it be not wrote as you find it here in my Name or first person singular; but that, you compose a Narrative out of it your Self in the third person, As ex. gr. He (John Rastrick) was born – &c. when he left such a place He removed to such a place – &c. which is easily done by this Account And do not put in the Prayers and Devotions suited to my age or Troubles or Letter to my Aunt; or whatsoever may be thought indecent, and of no use.

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