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You believe media influences others far more than you.

The third-person effect is the belief that mass media messages have a greater impact on other people than on yourself.

This bias leads people to support censorship or regulations for the public good, assuming that the general populace is more vulnerable to suggestion than they are. You maintain a belief in your own immunity while projecting vulnerability onto the collective.

You are the one person you rarely suspect of being influenced.

Where this comes from

Study
Davison, 1983
What the check found
The definition provided for the third-person effect is accurate, though the provided reference text describes a film actor rather than the academic author W. Phillips Davison.
Confidence
Solid, with limits

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