politics

Finding Connections Assignment


For this assignment, students will complete the following steps. Your written submission should be 12 point font and approximately 250 words in length. While you may use point form in the article summary, your analysis must be in sentence/paragraph form. No late assignments will be accepted without a medical note.

Steps:

  1. Social psychology is about how individuals think, feel and behave in social settings and, therefore, we are constantly making observations related to topics social psychology (e.g., role-playing, compliance, loneliness, socialization, group-think, etc,). For this assignment, you need to find an article that connects to a concept in social psychology (e.g., Huffington Post, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Macleans, The Atlantic, or a “popular press” magazine”)

  2. Then, write a summary of the key points in the article; and analyze the relationship between the concepts in the article and social psychology. Prepare questions or an activity to engage the