Social Psychology
Research Proposal Paper: Each student will be asked to design a social psychological study. (The study should not be carried out.) The paper describing the study should be written in APA style and should contain:
1) a title page;
2) an abstract;
3) an introduction, or literature review (with at least three references), ending with an original hypothesis;
4) a method section (in which the design is explained); and 4) b reference section. The report should be at least six pages long. Do not use websites as citations. ***Please do NOT put any type of results. This is a proposal of what study you would do if you were allowed, not what you have done. Thus, the abstract and method section should be written in future tense.
- Students are strongly encouraged to take drafts of their reports to the Writing Tutors at Academic Services (see http://www.nova.edu/tutoring-testing/index.html). Because this is a college course, grammatically correct writing is expected.
- This paper needs to be an EXPERIMENT or CORRELATIONAL STUDY with a testable hypothesis. The paper should not be written about an observational study.
- This paper needs to be in AP A style. You should have the American Psychological Association Publication Manuals your guide. You can also use some of the information on the APA style website at www.apastyle.org. d. Of course, students must not plagiarize in this paper. It is your responsibility to know what plagiarism is and avoid doing it; however, one quick tip is that whenever you read information from somewhere else, you need to give that author(s) credit, right at that point in the paper, so that the reader knows exactly where you got your information.
Note: Papers are to be submitted prior to or on the DUE date. Papers submitted late will be subject to a penalty of one-third of a letter grade per day. No paper will be accepted after the last day of the semester. For papers, websites are NOT acceptable as sources. If you have websites as sources, you will be marked off. If your paper is not in APA style, you will be marked off. the topic will be about Violence and Aggression the resource should be books not websites
