Author Topic: Give me a topic for a psychology paper (Read 1100 times)

TVC15 · « **on:** February 24, 2009, 06:20:20 PM »

Due to work and being crippled, I have fallen behind in school work. I have a rather large paper due next week. It can be on just about anything under the wide umbrella of psychology, but I have to base the paper around three peer-reviewed professional articles. So start giving me topics, bitches. The more recent and relevant the better. Also, the wider the better, since that will mean there is more published research to feed off of.

Please help me. Just a topic. I am not going home today until I have a topic, and I want to go home bad because this goddamned blood pressure medicine makes me fucking tired.

drozmight · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:27:10 PM »

Do a paper on how the America hates children.

Tieno · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:28:18 PM »

internet behaviour? You can use this forum and some of the peculiar personalities (such as yourself).

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:29:57 PM »

the transferal of obsession from one person to another

archie4208 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:30:47 PM »

MMORPG addiction.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:33:15 PM »

I haven't read these yet so I don't know how good they are but they seemed interesting.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7231/full/457788a.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7231/full/457786a.html

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:33:57 PM »

The psychological effects of price

"Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy" (Waber, Shiv, Carmon, Ariely 2008)
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/299/9/1016

"Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect" (Crum, Langer 2007)

"Placebo Effects of Marketing Actions: Consumers May Get What They Pay For" (Shiv, Carmon, Ariely 2005) http://www.predictablyirrational.com/pdfs/Placebo1.pdf

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:34:05 PM »

One of the things I found was biological psychology with an emphasis on how even the slightest injuries to the brain can change behavior. A large percentage of incarcerated violent offenders have some history of brain trauma/injuries.

Or maybe something about the psychology of the underprivileged, maybe a minority group or people etc. How does that effect their outcome on life, opportunity, for instance

TVC15 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2009, 06:38:28 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 24, 2009, 06:34:05 PM

One of the things I found was biological psychology with an emphasis on how even the slightest injuries to the brain can change behavior. A large percentage of incarcerated violent offenders have some history of brain trauma/injuries.

Recent research indicates that even a few minutes of pain causes the brain to start permanently rewiring itself. I might be remembering wrong, but I think this sort of neuroplasticity was observed mostly in the brainstem.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2009, 09:04:45 PM »

Interestingly, alot of former athletes, especially pro-football players and the like, experience alot of psychological problems like depression/addiction/suicide after their careers. When their brains are examined after death it appears that the repeated concussions and head traumas had degraded their brains to the point that they actually closely resembled elderly dementia patients.

After Chris Benoit killed himself and his wife and son, his family had his brain sent to these same researchers and his brain was the worst they ever saw.

xnikki118x · « **Reply #10 on:** February 24, 2009, 09:27:34 PM »

I always enjoyed writing papers on the psychology of birth order. It's cool because birth order is something everyone has and can relate to--you're always someone's chld, so everyone in the world falls into oldest/middle/youngest/only child category.

clothedmacuser · « **Reply #11 on:** February 25, 2009, 05:02:33 AM »

Sociopathic and murderous behavior in children. There is much history as well as the recent case of the 11 year old murdering his dad's girlfriend.

Reb · « **Reply #12 on:** February 25, 2009, 05:15:33 AM »

Yo mama

TVC15 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2009, 02:55:45 PM »

Looks like a good topic (a good topic being defined as a subject on which there's been a lot of recent research published) is posttraumatic stress. Not the most exciting or original subject, but it's good in ways other than there being plentiful recent research. I not only get to work on the psychological angle, but I can also incorporate the sociological angle (there's been a significant amount of rather interesting research on this side of things, mainly focusing on how better to prepare soldiers/firemen/police faggz for potential ptsd-triggering situations).

Well, the good thing is I have a lot of data to work with now. I just need to narrow down my scope and the hard work is over. The writing will actually be trivial.

Also you all failed me and I am feeling a lot of hate, which probably isn't good for my blood pressure.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2009, 03:01:21 PM »

Wilde Homo: The Rise and Fall of MAF and Why He Doesn't Post Here Anymore

TEEEPO · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2009, 03:01:52 PM »

bulimia/purging.

TVC15 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2009, 03:07:55 PM »

If I could pick a dream topic, it would be on why evolutionary psychology is about as much of a "science" as intelligent design, but articles on that subject don't appear to come up very often.

TEEEPO · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2009, 03:18:29 PM »

http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/

and psycinfo turned up a few results.

Propagandhim · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2009, 03:40:56 PM »

TVC: I'd love it if you could point me in the direction of the neuralplasticity paper regarding pain and brain rewiring.

TVC15 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2009, 04:09:17 PM »

I can't find the easy-to-read non-science journal version of it that I read last year. I think it was based off this:

http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/48/13181

I'll poke around and see if I can't find it later. It looks like it's spinal, not in the brain. My bad.

Propagandhim · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2009, 04:11:48 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on February 28, 2009, 04:09:17 PM

I can't find the easy-to-read non-science journal version of it that I read last year. I think it was based off this:

http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/48/13181

I'll poke around and see if I can't find it later.

Thanks! I know a little bit about neural receptors, but this is still quite the challenge to read. Thanks again.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #21 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:43:15 PM »

Psychological effects of media scares (Global Warming, Nukes, Diseases) on children.

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