The inception of smartphones in conjunction with social media platforms has led to a shift in how we communicate and interact in society. This research proposal should provide a balance of positive and negative aspects where such are to be found. Are the instruments that are designed to promote personal connections actually having the opposite effect in practice?

The scope for your research is relatively broad as one can extend the focus on the addiction properties of social media platforms as well as a comparative overview of how people’s perceptions on interpersonal relationships have changed from the decade preceding the commercialisation of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to the present day.

Wise Owl Research has degree level statisticians who will be able to comprehensively analyse all of your collected data and provide you with complete statistical analysis with descriptions of results to improve your dissertation grade markedly. Full details can be found here

Simply put, this Psychology dissertation idea will be to explore the specific structural diagnoses from both Freud and Lacan’s analyses into both psychosis and neurosis and how the conditions impact on the patient in trying to discover what the patient’s personality structure is

Your Psychology dissertation will invariably investigate how recent developments in both the psychiatrical and mental health sphere have aided the improvement in the awareness of the conditions through Lacan and Freud’s journeys into the diagnostic treatments of psychosis and neurosis

The focal purpose of your dissertation will be to assess whether Freud and Lacan’s diagnostic treatment of both psychotic and neurotic symptoms were successful, thorough, inconclusive or incomplete according to their readers in reference to the Wolfman

This piece of research aimed at finding out why people became drag queens and also what kept them performing in drag. Your study should include at least five individuals that identify as drag queens in the UK. The pervasiveness that gender stereotypes stand the test of time has been supported by psychological research (Prentice & Carranza, 2002). The concept of masculinity has also been researched heavily. Marrs (2015) suggested that young men are more likely to conform to gender stereotypes than young women

Other research that has been conducted on drag queens has suggested that language plays a role in a drag queen’s identity. Simmons (2013) stated that there is a dialect within the drag community and a “code of sisterhood”. This can be seen in real life, through examples of drag that can be seen on TV. In RuPaul’s Drag Race, this is made very clear as the ‘girls’ use phrases like “Hunty” and “Condragulations”.

This code of sisterhood shows a dialect within a community. These terms are kept within the community to show a strong bond and connection. More research in to drag language has been conducted by Childs and Van Herk (2014). They found that drag queens tended to add the letter S on to the end of words to give them a more feminine sound. This can be seen in Rupaul’s Drag Race when queens use terminology such as “Hussy” and “Herses”.  This can be explained by gender performativity (Butler, 2004) as this is clearly fulfilling the societal expectations of femininity and the soft tones in a woman’s voice

Social media has never been so diverse in its offer to young people – there is now a greater variety of platforms open to young people than ever before. What functions do these differing platforms play in the social lives of teens, and do different platforms serve different social functions?

Procure data from surveys so that you can analyse the difference from each of the social media platforms. An interesting study will be to distinguish the contrasts between each platform. This can be determined using statistical analysis techniques such as ANOVA – if you are not acquainted with statistical analysis – we have post graduate statisticians who will be able to process your data and provide you with a competent persons report to complete the data analysis for your dissertation

Social media – especially visual platforms such as Instagram or Snapchat – can significantly influence young peoples sense of body image and body dissatisfaction.

Online groups which use ‘thinspiration’ to encourage the use of extreme dieting behaviours have been linked to increased severity of eating disorders. Pro-anorexia groups also encourage those already suffering from an eating disorder to not seek help and to actively become more ill. How and why are these groups accessed and how do members interact with each in them?

Young people turn to, and become strongly invested in any platform that enables them to link with peers and fit in with their sub-group. It is widely accepted that social media can be an arena in which young people are compulsively checking in on, and interacting with. At what stage does this compulsion become addiction – how does this addiction manifest itself and what are the effects?

Increasingly political parties are becoming more aware of the importance of engaging young adults (18+) with their policies through social media. In the UK 2017 general election, for example, the mobilisation of the youth vote via social media channels was attributed to the surprise result.

How then, do young people engage in politics through the channels of social media and what effect does this engagement have on voting behaviours?

Despite the plethora of negative attention paid to the dangers of young peoples use of social media, there is a view that moderate use of social media can help build resilience and wellbeing in young people. However – what does ‘moderate use’ constitute, and how is this achieved?

Moreover, are their certain populations of young people –  those with mental health problems, LGBT individuals, for example –  who are more likely to benefit from moderate social media use?

Social media has never been so diverse in its offer to young people – there is now a greater variety of platforms open to young people than ever before. What functions do these differing platforms play in the social lives of teens, and do different platforms serve different social functions?

Procure data from surveys so that you can analyse the difference from each of the social media platforms. An interesting study will be to distinguish the contrasts between each platform. This can be determined using statistical analysis techniques such as ANOVA – if you are not acquainted with statistical analysis – we have post graduate statisticians who will be able to process your data and provide you with a competent persons report to complete the data analysis for your dissertation

Social media – especially visual platforms such as Instagram or Snapchat – can significantly influence young peoples sense of body image and body dissatisfaction.

Online groups which use ‘thinspiration’ to encourage the use of extreme dieting behaviours have been linked to increased severity of eating disorders. Pro-anorexia groups also encourage those already suffering from an eating disorder to not seek help and to actively become more ill. How and why are these groups accessed and how do members interact with each in them?

Social media platforms are increasingly popular as they serve a basket of purposes such as  facilitating communication with family and friends. This has not abated concerns on the problematic use of social media resulting in negative consequences for the individual.

The objective of this Psychology dissertation is to determine which factors can cause undergraduates to be susceptible to social media addiction. We suggest that you interview university students  through opportunity sampling to assess loneliness, self-esteem and trait anxiety. By using multiple regression analysis any positive correlations will indicate a predictor of social media addiction.

Thereafter, you will be able to construct theory on which aspects of the study can be a risk in developing social media addiction.

Empirical observation has demonstrated that humans have an innate ability to perceive the faces in the world around them. Further supportive evidence show that paranormal believers exhibit a different cognitive style to non-believers which may cause them to perceive familiar patterns, such as faces, differently.

Paranormal believers may be more inclined to attribute patterns in stimuli as being meaningful rather than a function of coincidence. This Psychology dissertation requires a sample of participants to try to identify faces in computer generated noise images as well as a paranormal belief scale survey. Examples of questions you may wish to feature are the subject’s belief that astrology can predict the future, black magic, religious beliefs, black cats and broken mirrors being bad luck. These will help determine, on scale of 1 to 5, the degree of superstition in your candidates

You will need to conduct statistical analysis to determine if any correlation is present and reference this back to any null hypothesis that you set out at the forefront of your paper. Remember, we have postgraduate statisticians who are able to help with data analysis

Social media has never been so diverse in its offer to young people – there is now a greater variety of platforms open to young people than ever before. What functions do these differing platforms play in the social lives of teens, and do different platforms serve different social functions?

Procure data from surveys so that you can analyse the difference from each of the social media platforms. An interesting study will be to distinguish the contrasts between each platform. This can be determined using statistical analysis techniques such as ANOVA – if you are not acquainted with statistical analysis – we have post graduate statisticians who will be able to process your data and provide you with a competent persons report to complete the data analysis for your dissertation

Social media – especially visual platforms such as Instagram or Snapchat – can significantly influence young peoples sense of body image and body dissatisfaction.

Online groups which use ‘thinspiration’ to encourage the use of extreme dieting behaviours have been linked to increased severity of eating disorders. Pro-anorexia groups also encourage those already suffering from an eating disorder to not seek help and to actively become more ill. How and why are these groups accessed and how do members interact with each in them?