Article Review Assignment . Author names for all authors, and journal info (title of article, year published, title of
journal it was published in) – 

2. General issue and topic being investigated (NOT just the title of the article or the abstract
reworded) (minimum of 1 paragraph) – 

3. What was the number of each type of gender in each study? Why do you think the authors
selected this distribution of genders, or, why did they not care about the gender issue/not
report gender? (minimum of 1 paragraph) 

4. What was the age range of participants in the study? Why do you think they selected this
age range (or why did it not matter if they did not report age)? (minimum of 1 paragraph)
4 pts
5. What did the article find overall? Explain what the authors expected or were interested in,
and what they found overall (in your own words): 10 points (minimum 1 paragraph

6. Looking at the results, what could be an alternate explanation for what they found? (your
own ideas, minimum 1 paragraph). 

7. Do you feel that the location of where the data was collected could have impacted their
results? Explain. (minimum 1 paragraph) 

8. If you were a participant in this study, do you think you would have figured out what they
were exploring? Why or why not? (minimum 1 paragraph) 

9. What main theory or concept from the course does this article seem to be exploring, and
why (minimum 1 paragraph)? 

10. Besides what theory or idea you listed in item 10, what could be a secondary theory from
the course? (minimum 1 paragraph). 

11. What was the most difficult to understand (besides the statistics) aspect of this article?
Why? (minimum of 1 paragraph). 

12. What is a good “discussion style” question you could ask a fellow student who also read
this article (write it out). 1 sentence. 

13. What was most interesting/intriguing/surprising about the findings in this article, and why
(minimum of 2 paragraph)? 

14. From what you read in the article, do you feel that what was discussed could have a direct
impact on college students? Explain. Additionally, do you think the article could have
practical implications outside of psychology (e.g., could it help change the world, or help
researchers in another discipline or alter how society functions etc)? Explain. (minimum of 2 paragraphs