Editing Social distance (section)

=== Media influence ===
Social distance has also been examined in the context of [[third-person effect]]s.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|last=Meirick|first=Patrick C.|date=December 2005|title=Rethinking the Target Corollary|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650205281059|journal=Communication Research|volume=32|issue=6|pages=822–843|doi=10.1177/0093650205281059|hdl=11244/24931 |s2cid=28533150|issn=0093-6502|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite journal|last=Meirick|first=Patrick C.|date=April 2004|title=Topic-Relevant Reference Groups and Dimensions of Distance|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650203261514|journal=Communication Research|volume=31|issue=2|pages=234–255|doi=10.1177/0093650203261514|hdl=11244/24930 |s2cid=42962482|issn=0093-6502|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite journal|last1=Jensen|first1=Jakob D.|last2=Hurley|first2=Ryan J.|date=2005-06-01|title=Third-Person Effects and the Environment: Social Distance, Social Desirability, and Presumed Behavior|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb02670.x|journal=Journal of Communication|volume=55|issue=2|pages=242–256|doi=10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb02670.x|issn=0021-9916|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite journal|last1=David|first1=Prabu|last2=Morrison|first2=Glenda|last3=Johnson|first3=Melissa A.|last4=Ross|first4=Felecia|date=June 2002|title=Body Image, Race, and Fashion Models|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650202029003003|journal=Communication Research|volume=29|issue=3|pages=270–294|doi=10.1177/0093650202029003003|s2cid=45017362|issn=0093-6502|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The third-person effect describes individuals' tendency to assume that media messages have a greater influence on those other than themselves.<ref name=":13" /> Some work has shown that this effect increases the greater the distance from the self; in other words, the greater the social distance between an individual and a hypothetical target, the greater the perceived influence of the media message on the target.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" /> This phenomenon has been dubbed the [[Social Distance Corollary|social distance corollary]].<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":15" />