hey guys, i need some help brainstorming ideas for this paper i gotta write involving emotion. its for psychology class in college…basically we have to invent an experiment thats never been done before and the experiment has to involve emotion in one way or another…the paper is standard formatting (intro/methods/predicted results/conclusion) and is 10 pages long. we do not actually have to conduct the study, just talk about how we'd go about doing it! Ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.

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hey guys, i need some help brainstorming ideas for this paper i gotta write involving emotion.  its for psychology class in college…basically we have to invent an experiment thats never been done before and the experiment has to involve emotion in one way or another…the paper is standard formatting (intro/methods/predicted results/conclusion) and is 10 pages long.  we do not actually have to conduct the study, just talk about how we'd go about doing it!  Ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.

aaronq · Answer

Do you wanna do something serious or something fun? If you opt for the latter, then test how booze affects emotions. Gather a group people, equip them with a sheet with subheadings on different types of emotions (e.g. sadness, anger, happiness, etc) and a scale underneath each from 1 to 10. Show them some images that would trigger emotional responses. Collect data. Introduce booze into their system, (if you wanna get scientific, you can even calculate their BAC (blood alcohol concentration) based on weight, etc, or get a breathalyzer (they're like $25)) repeat images. You can run with this data, try to draw a bunch of conclusions between male and female participants.