Third-Person Perceptions and Calls for Censorship of Flat Earth Videos on YouTube
Third-Person Perceptions and Calls for Censorship of Flat Earth Videos on YouTube
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第三人称视角以及对 YouTube 上地平说视频进行审查的呼吁
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
A. Olshansky
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作者：
A. Landrum;A. Olshansky
有人呼吁审查，以应对YouTube上平坦地球视频的激增，但这些视频可能是令人信服的很少。相反，人们可能会担心这些视频正在洗脑他人。个人认为其他人会比自己更受媒体信息的影响，这被称为第三人称感知（TPP），而这些感知的后果，如要求审查，被称为第三人称效应（TPE）。在这里，我们进行了三项研究，研究使用TPP和TPE作为理论框架的平坦地球现象。我们首先测量了参与者自己对YouTube视频中呈现的平坦地球论点的说服力的看法，并将这些看法与参与者对其他人可能发现的论点的说服力的看法进行了比较。然而，我们并不是仅仅关注一个人对自己和一般“他人”的评价，我们要求人们考虑各种身份群体，这些群体根据政党、宗教信仰、教育程度和居住地区而不同（例如，农村、城市）。我们发现，参与者的宗教信仰和政党是跨不同身份群体的TPP的最强预测因子。在我们的第二次和第三次预注册研究中，我们发现了对第一次研究结论的支持，我们发现了TPP是否预测公众支持审查YouTube的混合证据。
Calls for censorship have been made in response to the proliferation of flat Earth videos on YouTube, but these videos are likely convincing to very few. Instead, people may worry these videos are brainwashing others. That individuals believe other people will be more influenced by media messages than themselves is called third-person perception (TPP), and the consequences from those perceptions, such as calls for censorship, are called third-person effects (TPE). Here, we conduct three studies that examine the flat Earth phenomenon using TPP and TPE as a theoretical framework. We first measured participants’ own perceptions of the convincingness of flat Earth arguments presented in YouTube videos and compared these to participants’ perceptions of how convincing others might find the arguments. Instead of merely looking at ratings of one’s self vs. a general ‘other,’ however, we asked people to consider a variety of identity groups who differ based on political party, religiosity, educational attainment, and area of residence (e.g., rural, urban). We found that participants’ religiosity and political party were the strongest predictors of TPP across the different identity groups. In our second and third pre-registered studies, we found support for our first study’s conclusions, and we found mixed evidence for whether TPP predict support for censoring YouTube among the public.