Third-person effect and age groups in Internet use

Effect of Metalinguistic Feedback on Chilean Preservice Teachers’ Written Use of the Third Person Singular Suffix -s

This study addresses the impact of 2 types of written corrective feedback (WCF) on the acquisition of the third person singular -s in English. The study followed a quasi-experimental design: 2 experimental groups and 1 control group that included 57 preservice teachers from a Chilean university. The experimental groups underwent a treatment based on the provision of direct metalinguistic feedba...

self-revision and third party revision in translation

اهمیت این پژوهش در آن بود که به گفت? بسیاری از پژوهشگرانِ حوز? بازبینی ترجمه، ادبیات موجود در این زمینه به لحاظ نظری و عملی چندان قوی نیست و بخش های موجود نیز برداشت مناسبی از این مرحل? فرایند ترجمه ندارند، اگرچه اخیراً توجه به آن به صورت نظام مند افزایش یافته است. در عین حال، پژوهش های موجود از یک سو بر دگربازبینی بیشتر از خودبازبینی تأکید دارند و از دیگر سو تنها به لحاظ نظری به این موضوع می پرد...

Restricting Gambling Advertising and the Third-Person Effect

Along with the rapid growth experienced by the gaming industry in the United States has come increasing calls to restrict or ban gambling advertising. To date, little is known about what motivates people to support such restrictions on advertising. However, one recent theory, the third-person effect, offers a possible explanation. The third-person effect states that when confronted with negativ...

Third-Person Perception and Facebook

A survey of adolescents (N = 1,488) documented third-person perception (TPP) regarding Facebook use and cyber bullying. As Facebook establishes itself as the dominant social network, users expose themselves to a level of bullying not possible in the analog world. The study found that 84% of adolescents (middle school through college undergraduates) use Facebook, and that most users log on daily...

A Biography in Third Person