Social Psychology

Title of professional publication or journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Title of article: A silent emergence of culture: The social tuning effect.

Date article was published: Oct, 2010, Vol. 99(4), pp. 683-689.

Name of author: Shteynberg, Garriy.

What type of research is the article discussing? Survey method.

Describe this particular type of research: A descriptive research methods in which researchers use interviews and or questionnaires to gather information about the attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences of a group of people.

What chapters in our textbook does this article relate to? Chapter 15.

1. Where is the abstract located? In the first paragraph of the article.

2. What is the general purpose of an abstract? An abstract is a brief summary of the purpose, methods, results and conclusion of your thesis.

3. Was a hypothesis stated? Yes What is the general purpose of a hypothesis? A testable prediction about the conditions under which a particular behavior or mental process may occur.

4. What was the hypothesis found in your article? Stimuli which are assumed to be experienced by one's social group are more prominent in both cognition and behavior.

5. What information can be found in the methods section? What information was found in the methods section of your article? The methods section provides information on how a study was conducted. It provides a description of the methods that were used to formulate data that was found. My article used random assignment of 20 Northwestern University students and surveyed each one on whether the actions of a paramilitary group they had been shown was a terrorist organization.

6. What information can be found in the conclusion section? What

Information can be found in the conclusion section of your article? The conclusion section restates the argument and tells the findings of the research. The conclusion of my article found that stimuli that are assumed to be experienced by one's social group have greater cognitive ability.

7. How is this article significant to human behavior? " It suggests things such as time pressure, words, and paintings are rendered more psychologically and behaviorally prominent when they are thought to be experienced by others who are more similar to the self ".

8. What was you opinion of the article? How was it written? I know that the author did a great deal of work and research on this but honestly it was hard for me to understand fully. The work was very scientific and at times seemed a little