Identify when someone is making a claim about personality psychology.

Article Evaluation Assignment
Overview: Each article assessment will involve finding a news article, blog post, or social media post from your typical news feed that is relevant to personality psychology. Once you have read the article, you will write between 1⁄2 and 1 page evaluating the merits of the post in the context of current scientific thinking about personality. The purpose of this assignment is to get you to start looking for connections with the material in your everyday lives outside of the lecture hall. Personality psychology is all around us – we all have a personality! Many of the things people naturally think about are questions well within the domain of personality psychology, but unfortunately not everyone tackles these questions scientifically.
Assignment Learning Objectives: You should demonstrate an ability to…
1. Identify when someone is making a claim about personality psychology.
2. Evaluate the plausibility of the claim.
How to select an article: The two key aspects of a good article for this assignment.
The first aspect is the source of the article. I do not want you to seek out scholarly scientific journals from the library or elsewhere. Instead, I want you to find an article from your everyday life. The best source of articles are articles that you naturally stumble across during your typical week.
It is okay if the article you are reading cites a scholarly article. In this case, I do not want you to go the scholarly source that inspired the article you are reading. For example, at this link you will find a New York Times article about how social elites are overconfident: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class- confidence.html?searchResultPosition=1 If this was an article that you selected, then you should evaluate the NYTimes article not the original study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In sum, the best source of article are outlets you are already reading. I like to read the New York Times and browse Reddit. These are two sources of articles I would use, where I am bombarded with claims about personality.
The second aspect of a good article is the content of the article/post content. An article is only appropriate for this assignment if it makes a claim about something from the domain of personality psychology. This is broad and includes a ton of claims. For example, an article about what kinds of people invest in digital currency might work well. However, an article about bitcoin hitting all-time high would not be appropriate. In sum, choose articles/posts with clear and compelling connections to course content.
How to submit an Article Evaluation: You are to complete 3 article evaluations over the course of the semester. See course calendar in syllabus for schedule of due dates. Article evaluates will be submitted via Turnitin on eClass.