The Third Person Effect

The third person effect is a theory that when many people view media coverage of various incidents, dramatic incidents, it very much becomes it's that person or those people, not me. People either over internalize the horror and worry about what could have happened to them if they had been involved in such an incident. Cora Jones grew up watching minny the boot and et was called two smart strangers. She feared something might happen to i her as she got older.