Social psycology paper summaries
Paper Summaries for Social Psychology
Choose two peer-reviewed psychological studies, which can be found on psycinfo or
psycarticles at www.umb.edu/library. 1) You will first need to find two, full-text, peerreviewed articles, and submit the studies or links to the studies for approval. The papers
should on a related topic in social psychology. (It will be easier to compare and contrast
articles, if they are on a related topic. Topics suggestions can be found on course content
page.) The structure is as follows:
I.
Introductory paragraph
a. Summarize your topic, e.g. If your topic was attachment in adulthood, you
might start out by saying… “Attachment in adulthood has been examined
in a variety of ways. It has been looked at in dating, committed and
marital relationships and the findings have differed depending on the
relationship status examined… In what follows, two articles examining
adult attachment in these three stages will be reviewed.”
II.
Summary Paragraphs
a. Introduce topic and studies.
b. Describe the study, paying attention to the research concepts we have
discussed in this course, e.g. number of participants, correlational versus
experimental. You do not have to mention particular statistical methods,
if they are confusing or beyond what we have discussed in class.
c. Summarize findings of study.
d. Repeat for the second study
e. Write a conclusion that ties the studies together
III.
Provide an overview or summary paragraph(s) for both the studies, e.g. The
studies examining the issue of adult attachment had very different findings.
These differences seem to be due to fact that this was examined in different
populations in variety of different ways. Specifically, the technique using
interviews had the most promising findings because it seemed to capture
important aspects of attachment, such as… Future research should expand
this research to include older couples, same-sex couples and couples from x
countries…., this would provide greater external validity for this methodology
and related findings.” Your introduction and conclusion should be more
extensive for the final paper.
The two central objectives are to become familiar with the psychological databases and
locate primary sources in social psychology (peer-reviewed papers), and to accurately
summarize these materials. The ability to accurately summarize psychological studies is
critical particularly in social psych, because we have a tendency to read our
preconceptions into findings in psychology (i.e., we are influenced by our schemas, when
interpreting this material). Thus, the first step in studying psychological science is to
accurately understand the findings.
Summary papers should be in your words and own voice, please don’t plagiarize,
but also do not over-quote. Just try to describe the studies as if you were relating
them to someone else. 1400 words (excluding cover and reference pages)
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