What are good persuasion strategies to use when trying to increase people’s levels of
Advanced Social Psychology literature review paper
General Rules
1. Because I want you all to see what’s currently being studied in the field of social
psychology, the majority of your sources should come from the past 10 years.
2. Your topic must be specific to social psychology. Make sure you’re using some term or
theory from the text, the PPT slides (IT’s or my supplemental ones), or as I discuss in the
Tech Live sessions.
3. Almost all of your sources must be scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles.
Use
McMillen Library’s databases.
To use these databases, follow these steps:
1. Go to McMillen Library
2. Select “Find Databases by Subject”
3. Select “Psychology”
4. I recommend Using Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO), APA
PsycArticles, or Psychology Database (ProQuest).
5. Always use “Advanced” search on the databases.
6. Limit your searches by
a. The date ranges to your search to 2014 to 2024
b. English language
c. Peer-reviewed journal articles (NO dissertations)
d. And in APA PsycArticles, you may also limit your search by age groups (if your
topic is adolescents, for example), and by type of article (if you want to look only
standalone literature reviews, or if you want to find the latest empirical study).
Be sure to review the Psychology-related databases to see if there is the right number of articles
for your topic. Consider that only 40% of the articles you find may be helpful, so try to
overestimate the number of articles you may need.
If you find 15, that’s too few. If you find 200,
that’s too many 🙂
It’s the Goldilocks rule!
The topic I am choosing for my research is – What are the best types of interactions to reduce prejudice?
My hypothesis would be – Interpersonal contact is the most effective type of interaction for reducing prejudice.
