Theodore Lee

TL;DR: In this article, a United States national sample of 456 parents indicated their level of support for a wide range of Internet risk prevention strategies, including those that empower youth to protect themselves, as well as legal consequences or suspension from school for people who misbehave online.

TL;DR: A national sample survey nonrandom of 456 matched parent-child pairs revealed that a permissive parenting style, difficulty communicating about online risks, and household environmental variables play a role in parental underestimation of risky social interactions that their children encounter and experience online.

TL;DR: Findings from two studies that describe news portrayals of cancer causes and prevention in local TV and test the effects of typical aspects of this coverage on cancer-related fatalism and overload reveal that the combination of stories conveying an emerging cancer cause and prevention behavior as moderately certain leads to an increased sense of overload.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of feedback from a virtual pet on behavior change were evaluated with a randomized field experiment with 39 adolescents in the US and the results indicated that participants with virtual pet that provided both positive and negative feedback were twice as likely to eat breakfast than those with a pet that only positive feedback or participants in the control condition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how factors in the child's environment contribute to parent-child differences in estimations of how often children are helped by their Internet use, and found that parents overestimate these online activities, suggesting they are biased in their estimations.