Thursday, November 10, 2011
my eng 103 research plan #1
I need to find a book source, this weekend I plan on going to the library to find one that is rich in information about my topic. The topic of the book itself however might be hard to find specifically because it would be generalized against specialized like the one I want to find.
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(I don't see you thesis statement -- hope you have processed the feedback from Milestone #3 with this. I know you are doing physical attraction and evolutionary psych.)
ReplyDeleteWell, make a plan with the different databases:
Gale Virtual Research Library -- encyclopedia / dictionary entries - search terms -- physical attraction -- physical attractiveness -- evolutionary psychology -- attraction theory
Use Academic Search Complete with these terms too.
There are decades of research on physical attractiveness in social psychology -- only recently has evolutionary psychology added its perspective to this debate (on why we over-value physical attractiveness).
There are many, many popular psych. articles via LexisNexis since journalists like to popularize recent studies on attraction.
Don't get stuck on a book (though we asked everyone to look at an introduction from a book or a single chapter).
Hope this helps! --Prof. Dragan
P.S. --
ReplyDeleteIf you search in CUNY+ / CLICS for "Tooby and Cosmides", you will find many books that give the 'official' evolutionary psych. perspective on human behavior, including physical attraction. Their book of essays, The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, is a primer on evolutionary psychology. You could find that book and read one chapter for one essay that explains a single area of human experience with the evolutionary perspective. That might be a good choice.