Project Desciption

Answer these questions below and use APA style referencing:

General instructions cont.

Section A: Critiques of research papers

• Critique 1 paper from the list of each subsection

• There are 3 subsections: Provide 3 critiques In total

• Each critique should be approximately 400 words (+ or

  – 10%)

  Section B: Short answers

• Select 2 questions (out of 3) to answer

• Each answer should be approximately 600 words (+ or

  – 10%)

Section A: Critiques (select and critique 1 paper from each subsection)

Subsection 1 (critique 1 of the 2 papers below)

1. Gentile, D. A., Anderson, C. A., Yukawa, S., Ihori, N., Saleem, M., Ming, L. K., Shibuya, A., Liau, A. K., Khoo, A., Bushman, B. J., Rowell Huesmann, L., & Sakamoto, A. (2009). The effects of prosocial video games on prosocial behaviors: international evidence from correlational, longitudinal, and experimental studies, 35(6), 752–763LINK

2. Bushman, B. J., Kerwin, T., Whitlock, T., & Weisenberger, J. M. (2017). The weapons effect on wheels: Motorists drive more aggressively when there is a gun in the vehicle.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 82-85LINK

Subsection 2 (critique 1 of the 2 papers below)

1. Andersson, I., Persson, J., & Kajonius, P. (2022). Even the stars think that I am superior: Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology. Personality and Individual Differences, 187LINK

2. Ganzach, Y., Hanoch, Y., & Choma, B. L. (2019). Attitudes Toward Presidential Candidates in the 2012 and 2016 American Elections: Cognitive Ability and Support for Trump. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 924-934LINK

Subsection 3 (critique 1 of the 2 papers below)

1) Reicher, S. D. (1996). The Battle of Westminster: Developing the social identity model of crowd behaviour in order to explain the initiation and development of collective conflict. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 115-134LINK

2) Aydin, N., Krueger, J. I., Fischer, J., Hahn, D., Kastenmüller, A., Frey, D., & Fischer, P. (2012). “Man’s best friend:” How the presence of a dog reduces mental distress aftersocial exclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(1), 446–449LINK

Section B: Short answers (select and answer 2 out of the 3 questions listed below)

Question 1: “Acting aggressively or engaging with violent media is an effective way to reduce feelings of anger” – Critically discuss drawing on catharsis theory and empirical evidence.

Question 2: Critically evaluate the concept of the glass cliff effect, (Ryan and Haslam, 2007) with reference to relevant empirical evidence.

Question 3: Name one real-world context (e.g., politics, education, workplace), and 1) describe a scenario in which correspondence bias (also known as the fundamental attribution error) influences our attribution and perception of another person’s actions, 2) provide an analysis on why correspondence bias occur in this scenario; and 3) provide suggestions on how to mitigate the bias in this scenario.