Object-subject distance and the TPE –
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Running head: Object-subject distance and the TPE
I am more influenced when I know less, and they are less influenced when they know more:
Object-subject distance and the third person effect
Jonathan Cohen
Yariv Tsfati
Department of Communication
University of Haifa
Mt. Carmel, Haifa, 31905 ISRAEL
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Data collection was made possible through a grant to Yariv Tsfati, Jonathan
Cohen, and Eli Avraham by the Edelstein Foundation for Population Studies. Both
authors contributed equally to the preparation of the manuscript. The authors thank
Nurit Tal-Or and Eli Avraham for their helpful suggestions.