Personality and Facebook Research Project

Personality and Facebook Research Project

Personality and Facebook Research Project & APA Style Research Report
Introduction: This handout will help you understand what my expectations are for this assignment. If you have any remaining
questions about the assignment please ask questions via the phone, email, skype, or in my office hours. Each aspect of the
assignment will have its own more detailed assignment instructions.
Overview: This assignment is designed to enable you to explore a specific personality psychology topic in greater depth by
appreciating the application of research to understanding common and everyday social behavior. The project will also help
you develop and improve your understanding of personality psychology research and theory. This also allows for developing
and demonstrating skills in reading and critically evaluating research as well as reporting and interpreting research in APA
style. For this assignment you will work independently to using the PsycInfo data base
(https://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/psychology) to find empirical research on a subset of the topics below, present an
organized summary of that existing research along with logically derived predictions (hypotheses), Dr B. will supply a
Personality and Facebook survey data set and conduct analyses for you, and you can apply your understanding and creativity
to interpreting the results of the class data analyses, and finally present a clear and compelling synthesis of all these
activities to me in the form of an APA style research report. This process may also aid you in understanding your own online
behaviors and those of your friends and family.

Specified Topics:
? Required Topic to research:
o Big Five Personality Factors and Facebook behavior
? Selective Topics – choose one additional research topic from below:
o Shyness and Facebook behavior
o Self Esteem and Facebook behavior
o Adult Attachment Style and Facebook behavior
o Narcissism and Facebook behavior