Abstract
A survey of 640 students from 2 universities was conducted to understand young people's estimates of the effects of 3 reality television programs on themselves and others. Respondents perceived reality television programs to affect others more than themselves, locating this genre in the "socially undesirable" content category. The perceptual gap was influenced somewhat by their view of the programs as realistic but not by actual exposure, enjoyment of, or identification with the programs, all of which had no effect on perceptual gaps. A predicted pattern of greater third-person perception on more socially distant others (based on age) was partially supported.
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