A List Of Unique Psychology Dissertation Ideas To Consider
The best assignment topics lie within your area of interest; if you are not enthusiastic about your assignment it will be easy to abandon it. Check out newspapers and magazines for trendy, original topics and have a few thoughts in mind as you begin your initial research in case unexpected problems turn up. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.
- General Psychology
- Issues – boundary crossings, Skype consultations, Are victims always innocent?
- Profile a famous psychologist or explore types of therapy
- Explore a controversial experiment in the field– The conditioning of Little Albert, Milgram shock experiment, Lost in the Mall (false memory implantation), the Kirsch Anti-depressant placebo study.
- Abnormal Psychology
- Phobias – specific phobia, agoraphobias
- Personality Disorders – cultural expectations
- Seasonal Affective Disorder – links to major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder
- Eating disorders – is childhood obesity related to parental neglect, are children affected by parental eating disorders, effects of a type of diet on depression
- Cognitive Studies
- Dreams – therapeutic analysis,
- False memories – ties to post traumatic stress disorder
- Attention span – multi-tasking, ways attention can go wrong
- Perception –Psychophysics, Sensory neuroscience
- Language – the man who couldn’t speak, persuasive language, Evolutionary psychology of language
- Developmental Studies
- Role of environment – in personality development, sorting out common property, effect of environmental stress
- Birth order psychology
- Bullying – types of bullies, types of victims, long-term effects of bullying on both bully and victim
- Language acquisition pyschology
- Media violence and children – denial of the effects of violence, long-term effects of viewing violence
- Parenting styles – father figures and perceptions of masculinity for children of single mothers.
- The aging process – development from conception to old age, abuse of the elderly
- Teens – dating violence, sexting, suicide, is there a link between self-harm and using social networking sites
- Social Psychology
- Social cognition
- Person Perception
- Non-verbal communication
- Cults and social control – why do people join cults, how are cults so persuasive
- Attractiveness – the non-verbal attraction
- Homophobias
- What makes a terrorist? – The psychology behind extremism and radicalization.
- Racism – Are come people born racist? Alternatively you could look at the psychological effect of suffering racist abuse.
- PTSD – Treatments and help available for veterans returning from theaters of war. Compare the therapies available in America to those in Britain.
- Anti-fat prejudice – representations in the media reinforcing
- Social marketing - does store music affect what people buy, images of women in social marketing
- Matchmaking websites – pitfalls of online dating, do matchmaking algorithms work