PSYCH 1: General Psychology

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This assignment is intended to have you compare and contrast the writing style and information content between a popular press article and a peer reviewed primary research article that’s referencing a psychological phenomenon. The articles need to address the same area of interest (for example, depression and gender, love and crying, teenage norms and ostracism etc.), but do not have to necessarily be about the same exact experiment.

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Find Popular Journals

This assignment requires you to find a popular article from one of four sources. Psychology Today, Time, Newsweek or Reader's Digest. You can search them individually in the online free websites -- but be careful! Many of the "articles" on the free websites are actually BLOGS and aren't allowed as a source for this paper. You can flip through the paper copies of Psychology Today in the library. You can also use a library database, Academic Search Complete, to search them one at a time, or all three at once. Screenshots below show you how to search all three on a topic of interest.

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Last Update: October 24, 2012 07:19