PSY3441 Week 8 - Applying social psychology

PSY 3441 8.2

Title: Applying social psychology to your own life: A course-long project to apply social psychological concepts to a social dilemma

Directions: Briefly identify a social dilemma in your life that you are trying to resolve and what you see as your role in that dilemma. This will be an issue that you will return to at various points in the course as we learn new ideas from social psychology. You will be asked to identify any 4 ideas that you feel help explain and/or shed new light for you on this social dilemma. For each idea, indicate:

1. How it helps you to interpret (or reinterpret, if it changes you perspective) the dilemma

2. How it may suggest a way to resolve the dilemma

Parameters: Final paper is to be about 600 words long;