General Project Description:
Write a paper demonstrating and expanding upon your knowledge of a key topic from the science of happiness, integrating new information or a fresh perspective to make connections and extensions to the topics covered in class.
- Cite at least 8 scientific journal articles, which can include some papers covered in class but must also include papers you have identified in your own literature search for this project.
- Your entire project can’t be personal opinion nor a repetition of the research covered in class. You will need to identify a unique angle and make linkages across the concepts we covered in class, your own experiences, and outside academic literature-build evidence for your arguments with research from the science of happiness (covered in class and identified in a literature review).
- Beware that there is a lot of “pop psych” information about happiness out there, and unfortunately some of it is really bad and not at all grounded in the science of happiness. Be sure to identify primary source research articles. To do this you can search in Google Scholar
(https://scholar.google.com/) where many papers are available in full, or you can use Psychinfo, a database of journal publications provided by the University library system
Abstract:
Submit a 0.5 page to 1 page abstract describing your proposed final paper topic on Canvas by April 19th
- Identify the main thesis of your project (see paper grading rubric prior to selecting
your topic). - Include an annotated list of at least three scientific references you will use to support your central argument and a brief description of how that paper is relevant to your thesis.