Reactance Theory

BL Quick, L Shen, JP Dillard - The SAGE handbook of …, 2013‏ - books.google.com
S ir Isaac Newton famously claimed that for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. It is doubtful that he had persuasion in mind when formulating his third law of …

“Others are more vulnerable to fake news than I Am”: Third-person effect of COVID-19 fake news on social media users

J Yang, Y Tian - Computers in Human Behavior, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Fake news have pervaded the social media landscape during the COVID-19 outbreak. To
further explore what contributed to fake news susceptibility of social media users, the …

Older and newer media: Patterns of use and effects on adolescents' health and well‐being

JD Brown, PS Bobkowski - Journal of research on …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
The past decade's research on the use and effects of older (television, music, movies,
magazines) and newer media (the Internet, cell phones, social networking) on adolescents' …

People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible

S Altay, A Acerbi - New Media & Society, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Alarmist narratives about the flow of misinformation and its negative consequences have
gained traction in recent years. If these fears are to some extent warranted, the scientific …

Parental acceptance of digital game-based learning

J Bourgonjon, M Valcke, R Soetaert, B De Wever… - Computers & …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
In research about digital game-based learning, the likely negative perceptions of parents are
often enlisted as a barrier toward the adoption of games in classroom settings. Teachers …

“People think it'sa harmless joke”: young people's understanding of the impact of technology, digital vulnerability and cyberbullying in the United Kingdom

LR Betts, KA Spenser - Journal of Children and Media, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
Young people's technology use has increased exponentially over the last few years. To gain
a deeper understanding of young peoples' experiences of digital technology and …

Facebook, the third-person effect, and the differential impact hypothesis

V Schweisberger, J Billinson… - Journal of Computer …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
This study examined the effects of embedding and framing online news stories in social
media contexts on perceived message influence and third-person effects (3PE). 88 …

[ספר][B] How fantasy becomes reality: Seeing through media influence

KE Dill - 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
It's a common belief that the stories we encounter through mass media--whether in video
games, action movies, or political comedy skits on Saturday Night Live--are just entertaining …

Nasty online comments anger you more than me, but nice ones make me as happy as you

GM Chen, YMM Ng - Computers in Human Behavior, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Using online comments posted on news stories as the context, this research used two
experiments to assess the influence of online comments on people's emotions as well as on …

Third-person perception of online comments: Civil ones persuade you more than me

GM Chen, YMM Ng - Computers in Human Behavior, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Using online comments posted on news stories as the context, this study aimed to examine
the interplay between the third-person perception (TPP)–that people believe media …