Christmas

Everything up to the beginning of the primary research has been written. It's 4,936 words long.

My research has been planned out (time wise) on my calender and will be completed within the next two weeks..ish.

When it's done i 'just' have to document it,, which will take me up to about 7,000 words + referencing + bibliography + other nonsense.

Great use of the blog Alex!

I'm really pleased that you are finding some use for the blog - it will make writing up the summary of your research much much easier...

R

Dissertation

Started writing: 23rd november

sites for psychology introduction

https://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/df440cb14669ea1e8525709a0051f7bd?OpenDocument

http://psychology-forum.com/general-psychology-forum/stereotyping-an-evolutionary-basis/

SO FAR.

So far, the goa has been to accumulate data: stereotypes of English people. The data needs to be collected from as many cultures as possible and using as many research methods as possible. I have used:
Qustionnaires – 19 responses
Interviews – 2 (another is scheduled)
Opinion poles – 76 responses
Books – 2 (2 more coming up)
Dvds – 3
TV shows - 1
A travel article
A chat forum – 6 responses
Cultural groups represented so far in my research include: Canadian, Chinese, German, Japanese, American, Belgian (Flemish), Belgian (French), Colombian, Finnish, Australian, French, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, United States, Ukrainian.
Most of my data has been collected through the questionnaires that I have used. They turned out to be efficient, easily transferable and non-intrusive. I think people feel more comfortable expressing their views about the English completely anonymously. Using questionnaires therefore eliminates social desirability bias. Looking at articles and chat forums + opinion poles has given me a huge stack of information and quotable material to back up my choice of stereotypes to be investigated.
I have found an online dissertation format, which I have looked through to help me picture how my essay will be set out. Ordering information is key to this piece of writing. I think I should open my essay with an introduction to stereotypes from a psychological perspective. This I have read up on and I hope it’s not too much of a problem if my introduction goes over 250 words. For example, I would like to discuss Tajfel’s Minimal group paradigm and how it might be applied to a pattern I have noticed in my findings: most stereotypes are negative. This could obviously be explained by Tajfel’s theory + study, but interestingly, the majority of stereotypes pinned on the English by Ukrainian people (according to my interviewee) are positive. Why is this I wonder?...Going off on a historical/political tangent might be inappropriate though.

Interview with dina.

did that. very good stuff. That makes 2, plus the one with simona tomorrow. it's the 23rd of nov.

people and their pasts

john siblon's bit. not really relevant as such. not even that interesting.