‘We are not as they think about us’: exploring Omani EFL learners’ ‘selves’ in digital social spaces

[Who do they think we are?].

“They are Us—We are Them”

Stigmatization towards persons with mental illnesses is a major quality of care concern. Unfortunately, nurses are no less implicated than other health professions. This article reports the results of an evaluation of a learning intervention for psychiatric nursing students in partnership between Brandon University and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. We describe this intervention as an ...

Are we as depressed as we think we are?

MEDICAL attitudes to psychotropic drugs in general and antidepressants in particular tend to be casual, and their effects seen as innocuous. Indeed if used as recommended by their manufacturers tricyclic antidepressants are not very effective drugs, although some of their side effects and interactions can be very serious. It has been stated that tricyclics generally have a margin of superiority...

Who do we think of as good judges? Those who agree with us about us

Article history: Received 2 February 2016 Revised 12 July 2016 Accepted 27 July 2016 Available online 28 July 2016 The present research consideredwhat leads perceivers to evaluate someone as a good or poor judge of people. In general,we found a substantial role for agreement: perceivers evaluated another person as a good judgewhen he or she agreed with their perception of someone's characterist...

Prosodic Features of the Chinese EFL Learners as They Express New Information ------With EFL Learners from Jinan Dialect

The present study investigates the prosodic features of Jinan EFL learners as they express new vs. given information in terms of accent distribution, phrase segmentation and intonation pattern. According to the present study, under the influence of Jinan dialect, the learners produced errors in the accent position, especially within the multi-syllabic words. Compared with the native speakers, t...