help writing introduction for research proposal for psychology class
Overall APA style
I need 4 scholarly journal based articles on racial bias and criminals.
More or less on criminals judged based on race.
Here’s one :
http://mimas.calstatela.edu/
Introduction:
- Opening statement/Paragraph: statistic or definition related to topic
- Research Question: What are the effects of race (White, African Americans) and attractiveness on perception in terms of severity level of crime, accuracy of conviction, and how dangerous people perceive criminal profiles.
- 1-2 paragraphs per article explaining how it relates to topic.
- Synthesis of Research question and previous research
Example: This past research relates …
Also discuss limitations.
- Hypotheses:
- We hypothesize that White/black attractive will score lower on severity, dangerous, and accuracy of conviction
- We hypothesized that Unattractive white/black will score higher on severity, dangerous, and accuracy of conviction.
- We hypothesized that Both white attractive and unattractive will score lower than both black attractive and unattractive.
IV1: White and African Americans
IV2: attractiveness : We will Measure attractiveness by getting a group of 40 to rate photographs on a scale 1-10.
We asked XX to determine their level of attractiveness.
Average score of 8 is good
Lower than 4 is bad
DV: Severity, Danger, Accuracy
- We are measuring how dangerous they are. How accurate the conviction was and the severity of the crime. Measuring severity of crime and how successful they are as a criminal. We want higher score for ugly criminals and lower for attractiveness.