Submit an annotated bibliography that categorizes all resources located in the topic area of interest. You should use at least seven scholarly resources, including peer-reviewed research

PSY 550: Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Overview Annotated bibliographies provide you with the opportunity to cite, summarize, and compare and contrast resources you will use in a paper. You will cite each resource in APA style, write an approximately 150-word description that summarizes the central theme and scope of the resource, and compare and contrast it with other resources. For more information on annotated bibliographies, consult the SNHU Writing Center’s annotated bibliography guide. Depending on the assignment, the annotated bibliography may serve a number of purposes, including but not limited to reviewing the literature on a particular subject; illustrating the quality of research you have done; providing examples of the types of resources available; describing other items on a topic that may be of interest to the reader; and/or exploring the subject for further research. The articles should provide sufficient information for you to compare and contrast the two theories. (Source: http://lib.skidmore.edu/library/index.php/writing-an-annotated-bibliography) Choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic. You will need to include at least seven scholarly resources total, including peer- reviewed journal articles or well-respected texts. As noted below, students should pay attention to the following points in their annotation:

 Summarize the central theme and scope of the resource

 Include a paragraph that covers the following: o Evaluates the authority or background of the author o Comments on the intended audience o Compares or contrasts this work with another you have cited OR explains how this work illuminates your bibliography topic

 Cite the resource using APA style (see below for example)

The annotated bibliography is due in Module Seven. You should include at least seven quality resources directly related to your topic.

Sample Annotated Bibliography of a Journal Article

The following example is what your final product for each resource should look like. This example (for the psychological research article A Bad Taste in the Mouth: Gustatory Disgust Influences Moral Judgment) employs APA style for the journal citation. The writer of this annotation follows the above points to create an annotation that summarizes the article’s main points and draws connections between that resource and other resources: Eskine, K. J., Kacinik, N. A., & Prinz, J. J. (2011). A bad taste in the mouth: Gustatory disgust influences moral judgment. Psychological Science, 22(3), 295–299. Annotation: In this article, Eskine and colleagues describe the results of an experiment that examined whether the taste in a person’s mouth influences the moral judgments that the person makes. The authors, who are researchers at the City University of New York, hypothesized that there would be a relationship between these two variables because prior research has shown that there are strong links between basic emotions and moral judgments. Indeed, the authors found that participants given a bitter drink made harsher moral judgments than those given a non-bitter drink. This article is extremely useful for my paper because it provides evidence that seemingly unimportant sensory information can influence moral judgments. Also, it nicely complements the work of Chapman et al. (2009), who found that emotional disgust and morality utilize similar brain regions. One limitation, though, is that all of the participants in the study were college students. They may have responded differently to the moral situations than older or younger participants. Abstract from author: Can sweet-tasting substances trigger kind, favorable judgments about other people? What about substances that are disgusting and bitter? Various studies have linked physical disgust to moral disgust, but despite the rich and sometimes striking findings these studies have yielded, no research has explored morality in conjunction with taste, which can vary greatly and may differentially affect cognition. The research reported here tested the effects of taste perception on moral judgments. After consuming a sweet beverage, a bitter beverage, or water, participants rated a variety of moral transgressions. Results showed that taste perception significantly affected moral judgments, such that physical disgust (induced via a bitter taste) elicited feelings of moral disgust. Further, this effect was more pronounced in participants with politically conservative views than in participants with politically liberal views. Taken together, these differential findings suggest that embodied gustatory experiences may affect moral processing more than previously thought.

Rubric

Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Information Literacy Identifies, locates, evaluates, and effectively and responsibly uses and shares information for problem at hand. Includes the full citation and abstract for each article

Identifies, locates, evaluates, and responsibly uses and shares information for problem at hand. Includes the full citation and abstract for each article

Identifies, locates, uses, and shares information for problem at hand. Includes the full citation and abstract for each article

Does not identify, locate, evaluate, and responsibly use and share information for problem at hand and/or does not include the full citation and abstract for each article

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Annotation

Annotation follows all the points noted in the Overview and provides the main conclusions of each resource

Clearly summarizes the main conclusions of each resource and includes most of the points noted in the Overview

Incompletely summarizes the main conclusion of each resource and may not include all of the points noted in the Overview

Does not focus on the main idea and/or does not include most of the points noted in the Overview

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Research Incorporates more than seven scholarly resources effectively that reflect depth and breadth of research

Incorporates seven resources effectively that reflect depth and breadth of research

Incorporates between five and six scholarly resources that reflect depth of research

Incorporates fewer than five scholarly resources that reflect depth and breadth of research

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Writing

(Mechanics/Citations)

No errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

Minor errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

Some errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

Major errors related to organization, grammar and style, and citations

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