At the beginning of the course, I talked about the basic and applied nature of t

At the beginning of the course, I talked about the basic and applied nature of the Social Psychology course. While most of the chapters in the book would be classified as basic, with the purpose to describe, understand, and predict what people will do in particular situations, the last few chapters are applied in nature. Schultz and Oskamp (2000) define applied social psychology as “the application of social psychological methods, theories, or principles to understand or solve a social problem” (p. 6).
The purpose of this assignment is to extend your understanding of an applied aspect of social psychology by developing a presentation based on a piece of empirical research on applied social psychology.
Find one other person in the class with whom to do this project. You can find your partners however you want. If you need help finding partners, let me know.
Find a journal article (not a magazine article) that represents applied social psychology. The article should have a Method section. Some articles that you might use follow. Most of them have been scanned and are available to you in this module. (Double-click on this assignment if you don’t see them. They are attachments.) If you want to choose your own, the journals in which the following articles appear might be places to start. If you choose your own article, please send it to me for approval as to its relevance to applied social psychology.
Please sign your group up with the name of the article here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12J2b4pH8LZgrSpyW-Qz4ve22TmarvVVJ91_IJiEsX8c/edit?usp=sharing Multiple groups CANNOT present on the same article.
Carr, C.T., Hayes, R.A., and Sumner, E.M. (2018). Predicting a threshold of perceived Facebook post success via Likes and Reactions: A test of explanatory mechanisms. Communication Research Reports, 35(2), 141-151.
Cialdini, R.B., Reno, R.R., & Kallgren, C.A. (1990). A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(6), 1015-1026.
Diekman, A.B., McDonald, M., & Gardner, W.L. (2000). Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24, 179-188.
Frederickson, B.L., Roberts, T-A., Noll, S.M., Quinn, D.M., & Twenge, J.M. (1998). That swimsuit becomes you: Sex differences in self-objectification, restrained eating, and math performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(1), 269-284.
Grant, S., LaBrie, J.W., Hummer, J.F., & Lac, A. (2012). How drunk am I? Misperceiving one’s level of intoxication in the college drinking environment. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26(1), 51-58.
Johnson, S.K., Podratz, K.E., Dipboye, R.L., & Gibbons, E. (2010). Physical attractiveness biases in rating of employment suitability: Tracking down the “Beauty is Beastly” effect. The Journal of Social Psychology, 150(3), 301-318.
Kassin, S.M., & Kiechel, K.L. (1996). The social psychology of false confessions: Compliance, internalization, and confabulation. Psychological Science, 7(3), 125-128.
Kruger J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1121-1134.
Murray, S.L., Holmes, J.G., & Griffin, D.W. (1996). The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships: Love is not blind, but prescient. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(6), 1155-1180.
Palmer, M.A., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2012). The information gained from witnesses’ responses to an initial ‘blank’ lineup, Law and Human Behavior, 36(5), 439-447.
Peterson, C., Seligman, M.E.P., & Vaillant, G.E. (1988). Pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for physical illness: A thirty-five-year longitudinal study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55(1), 23-27.
Platz, S.J., & Hosch, H.M. (1988). Cross-racial/ethnic eyewitness identification: A field study. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 18 (11), 972-984.
Regan, P.C. (1996). Sexual outcasts: The perceived impact of body weight and gender on sexuality. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26(20), 1803-1815.
Schultz, P.W. (1998). Changing behavior with normative feedback interventions A field experiment on curbside recycling. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 21(1), 25-36.
Simpson, J.A., Gangestad, S.W., & Lerma, M. (1990). Perception of physical attractiveness: Mechanisms involved in the maintenance of romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(6), 1192-1201.
Stone, J., Aronson, E., Crain, A.L., Winslow, M.P., & Fried, C.B. (1994). Inducing hypocrisy as a means of encouraging young adults to use condoms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20(1), 116-128.
Stone, J., Gordon, G.B., Zestcott, C.A., & Wolsiefer, K.J. (2019, June 13). Testing active learning workshops for reducing implicit stereotyping of Hispanics by majority and minority group medical students. Stigma and Health. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sah0000179
Williams, K.D., Nida, S.A., Baca, L.D., & Latane, B. (1989). Social loafing and swimming: Effects of identifiability on individual and relay performance of intercollegiate swimmers. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 10(1), 73-81.
Zestcott, C.A. & Stone, J. (2019, January 28), Experimental evidence that a patient’s tatoo increases their assigned health care cost liability. Stigma and Health. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sah0000161
4. Put together the PowerPoint presentation in the following format. It should be only 10 minutes long.
The title page should contain the name of the article, the authors of the study, and your names.
An abstract slide. The social problem being addressed, who the participants were and how many, how the problem was addressed (the study design), what the general objectives/hypotheses were (usually the ones presented in the abstract of the article), and what was found should be on this slide.
Specific hypotheses. (What did the researchers expect to find?) If there are too many hypotheses in the study pick three major ones about which you later will present results.
Rationales for each of the hypotheses. (Why did they expect those findings? Rationales are based on a theory, past research, or logic). Write the rationales for only the hypotheses listed under c.
Methodological information. (Who were the participants? What was manipulated /measured and how? What was the procedure)
Major results. (What did the researchers find? Present results only for the hypotheses described in c, in the same order as described in c.) Tables and graphs would be helpful.
Discussion with a brief summary of the main results, applications of the results (How might the results of this particular study apply to the real world?) and critique of the study (What are some limitations of the study?). Check the discussion section of your article for some ideas for the critique.
A full A.P.A. style reference for the article you used
5. Record the 7-10 minute presentation . Zoom will allow each person the ability to present during the presentation. Upload the video to YouTube and share the link (best practice because YouTube provides automatic closed captions). The person recording should use “presenter view” to show only the person speaking.
6. Upload your slides to Brightspace. Add a link to your video

Name of Article Social Comparison and Smoking Cessation That I chose