Essays and Research Papers on Social Psychology

A 5 page paper. This essay focuses on Festinger and Carlsmith's study published in 1959 that explains cognitive dissonance. It provides a summary of the original study and the results. The essay also comments on whether the results would have been different had women or different cultures and ethnicities been included. Bibliography lists 7 ...

A 3 page paper. The majority of people do not exercise regularly even though we all know the many benefits this would bring. This paper identifies two personal and two environmental factors that influence a person's engagement in physical exercise. The paper then discusses one factor that could act as a motivator for a person ...

A 3 page paper. The first part of this essay discusses death education. The second part discusses services that help those who are dying and their families. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper analyzes Sherry Turkle's TED talk "Connected, but alone." Bibliography cites only this source.

A 4 page paper. This essay discusses two questions: is a culture always multigenerational? and what influenced the growth of multicultural psychology. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 10-page paper presents four cast studies concerning ethics and family/marriage therapy. Topics involve religion, culture, technology and managed care. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 4 page paper. This paper is based on inductive logic. It reports an observation of a diner in a restaurant. The diner is part of a large group of people. The essay begins with a list of behaviors observed, discusses how easy or difficult it was to conduct the observation, comments about demographics ...

This 3 page analysis of Esther Perel's TED talk, "The secret to desire in a long-term relationship" is discussed. Bibliography lists only this source.

A 3 page paper. This essay responds to nine questions about surveys, sampling, interview bias, the relationship between sample size and survey results. Bibliography lists 1 source. PG715115.doc

An 8 page paper, This paper is based on a student's self-evaluation using that profile. The paper identifies the student's scores, reflects on them, names the strengths and weaknesses, and writes 2 SMART goals to correct weaknesses. 1 Table. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper. This essay discusses groupthink, which is described as a phenomenon in which people set aside their own opinions, thoughts, ideas and agree with the group. The theory is explained with examples. The paper includes historical examples of groupthink as well as a personal one. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 15 page paper. This essay discusses grief and spirituality. The question is: Is the processing of grief and loss a spiritual experience? The essay begins with definitions of spirituality and grief. Five models of grief processing are included and also several verses from the Bible are identified. Examples are included. Comments about the ...

In a paper of five pages, the author writes two reaction papers. The author of this paper writes one paper on the work, A Post-Racial Society in Which Ethnic-Racial Discrimination Still Exists and Has Significant consequences for Youths' Adjustment and the other on the writing The biography Memoir of Theodore Mead Newcomb. There are two ...

A 5 page paper. Two works are discussed, one is about the underestimation-of-compliance effect and the other is about Roger Williams Brown. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page paper that different issues relative to social psychology, including situationism, ethics, studies that were unethical, how people influence culture with examples, and conformity and obedience. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page paper. The Stanford Prison Experiment is the most famous and most controversial of psychology experiments. This paper briefly explains the experiment, how it is valuable to social psychology, the relevance to world issues, the value to humanity, the ethical concerns. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper. This essay discusses two topics: emerging issues in multicultural psychology and a significant development in the field. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page paper. There has been a long-standing controversy regarding the effects of action video games on those who play them. Empirical research has now found there are many positive cognitive and perceptual effects for people who play these games. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 7 page paper that discusses factors that are related to smoking and the desire to continue smoking. One promising theory is that smoking is directly linked to anxiety traits. This is discussed as are the reasons the writer continues to smoke. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 15 page paper that explores and discusses informal leadership. The paper is structured with case studies and research reports that show how informal leaders affected different events and situations. These all report the qualities and characteristics of the informal leaders. By structuring this essay in this manner, the reader is able to review ...

A 4 page paper. This essay explains what social psychology is, the primary research methods use in the field, what multicultural psychology is, and how social and multicultural psychology are similar and how they are unique. Bibliography lists 3 sources.