discussion #7

Journal Entry #7

1. Watch the following YouTube video about scientific studies by John Oliver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw

2. Read the following two articles:

1. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115844

2. A PDF entitled “Little Words Big Thoughts” from Psychology Today is

attached in assignment page.

The first article is the original journal article in which the study results were

published while the second PDF is a piece from Psychology Today reporting about

the findings in the Pennebaker et al. study.

Assignment:

After watching the video and reading the attached readings; Discuss the following

question:

• Does the Psychology Today article, including the title, do an accurate job of summarizing

the findings in the original Pennebaker et al. article?

Length: One page maximum. Double space.

Due: In 10 hours.