4-5 Pages

please research and write a paper on psychology. 4-5 pages long. Please refer to your textbooks for ideas: Behrens and Rosen’s Writing and Reading across the Curriculum and/or Brown and Logan’s The Psychology of The Simpsons.

The Chapters of the Brown and Logan book that we will cover are

“The Family Simpson” Hook, which covers familial roles, patterns, relationships, structures, function and dysfunctionality.

“For Better, or Worse : ‘The Love of Homer and Marge” by Goodfriend, which covers interdependence theory: satisfaction, dependence, investment, and commitment.

“Which One of Use is Truly Crazy: Pop Psychology and the Discourse of Sanity and Normativity in The Simpsons” by Snodgrass and Viachos-Weber, which deals with mental illness, sanity, and normativity in American culture.

“Stupid Brain: Homer’s Working Memory Odyssey” by Cowan, Kane, Conway, and Ispa-Cowan, which deals with the human brain, its functions, and working memory.

“Homer’s Soul” by Bloom and Pizarro, which deals with existentialism, the brain, the soul, and the mind.

“Alcohol – The Cause of and Solution to, All of Life’s Problems” by McCarty, which deals with substance abuse, substance dependence, children of alcoholics, codependency, heredity of the disease, the alcoholic family structure, and roles in alcoholic families.

“The Cafeteria Deep Fryer is not a Toy” by Byrne, which deals with environmental influence on the psyche.

“Righteousness and Relationships: Feminine Fury in The Simpsons and How Marge and Lisa Taught me to Embrace my Anger” by Stabb, which deals with female psychology , emotions, patriarch, and myths regarding anger.

Some ideas from the Behrens and Rosen text are

Positive Psychology

Flow

Reading on obedience to authority: Fromm and/or Milgram

Group Think

Leaders and Followers