THE TOPIC OF MY PAPER IS THE INCEL MOVEMENT. This is an extremist organization. This project consists of two parts. The first part is power point slides and the second is a 10 page paper. The other 5 pages can be used for power point slides…
Powerpoint slides-The presentation will involve the student preparing a PowerPoint presentation that will be
uploaded for the class. Since a majority of this course involves examining the psychological
mechanisms behind extremist groups, the presentation primarily serves as a kind of historical
briefing on one specific extremist group. The presentation will include two areas: 1) first discuss
the historical aspects of the extremist group (i.e., their history, significant events in their existence,
their members, leaders, ideology, etc.) and, 2) then discuss the psychological aspects of their
extremism. The analysis of psychological factors should comprise a wide variety of psychological
phenomena, including cognitive, social, and clinical psychology. Students will be required to
create and submit a PowerPoint presentation. Remember, the presentation is meant to serve as a
briefing for other students—you are teaching them about your selected group—so the PowerPoint
presentation should be easy to follow (audio narration or detailed slide notes are encouraged but
not required, given certain technology constraints).
Final Paper: The final paper is required to be at least 10 pages (double-spaced, 1” margins, 12-point Times New Roman font), not including references. The paper will follow the same format as the presentation, in that students will be required to write about: 1) the historical accounts of the chosen extremist group (approximately 4-5 pages) and, 2) the psychological factors which relate to the extremist group (approximately 5-6 pages).
Students may use open sources (e.g., Wikipedia, YouTube, video sources) and/or expert sources (e.g., novels) when acquiring information on the historical aspects of the extremist groups. However, students are required to rely on expert, peer-reviewed sources (e.g., PsycINFO) for the second portion of the presentation/paper focusing on the relevant psychological factors. Students
are welcome and encouraged to utilize sources assigned throughout the semester. That is, students are encouraged to apply the material (e.g., social, cognitive, clinical) from the readings/papers in class and discuss their relation to the specific extremist group in question.
As each of the major topic areas covered in class may not be appropriate for each extremist group—or alternatively, if student’s simply wish to focus on two or three more in-depth topics, rather than covering all of them—it is not required to discuss each major topic area covered in class. Furthermore, even if you do not see that a major topic area is related to your group (e.g., clinical), you can make note of this and expand (e.g., discussing how a particular extremist group did not appear to evidence signs of psychopathology, thus increasing the importance of otherwise normative cognitive/social factors and supporting theories that overt psychopathology is insufficient to explain away extremist behavior).
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