French translation: effet d'entraînement ou boule de neige
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14:57 Jun 25, 2010
English to French translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Psychology Additional field(s): Economics, Government / Politics, Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase:bandwagon effect
Definition from WordNet: The phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity.
Example sentence(s):
Schmitt-Beck (1996) went further and hypothesized that media’s publishing of the electoral strengths of parties and candidates, which he documented through content analysis, would contribute to shaping voters’ expectations and stimulate a bandwagon effect. OhioLINK ETDs
But the experimental data tend to contradict the notion of the bandwagon effect as a rational partisan strategy. Jim Schnabel
On the other hand, if McCain surges in the polls in the last few days before the election, the bandwagon effect could have voters reconsidering and jumping off the Obama train. Yahoo! News
Definition: Les sondages avant une élection tendent à influencer les votes, en d'autres termes ils ont un effet d'entraînement (tout comme la plublicité à la TV:). On pourrait encore parler de ralliement ou tout simplement de boule de neige - tout dépend du contexte.
Definition from TErmium: Les sondages avant une élection tendent à influencer les votes, en d'autres termes ils ont un effet d'entraînement (tout comme la plublicité à la TV:). On pourrait encore parler de ralliement ou tout simplement de boule de neige - tout dépend du contexte.
Example sentence(s):
Un restaurateur qui asseoie ses clients à la fenêtre, cela crée un effet boule de neige et attire d'autres clients. - moi-même
renel Native speaker of: French PRO pts in category: 4
16 hrs confidence:
comportement moutonnier
Definition from own experience or research: le comportement moutonnier d'une catégorie de population incite cette dernière à suivre les orientations de ses pairs
Explanation: the translation offered so far "effet d'entraînement ou boule de neige" is correct, too. The "boule de neige" is definitely more casual than "effet d'entrainement"...
sylvan pradel France Local time: 12:35 Native speaker of: French
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peer agreement (net): +2
