HRPYC81
RESEARCH PROJECT 3:
REPORT GUIDE 2024
(Assessment 12)
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Contents
1. Instructions ..................................................................................................................................... 2
2. The broad topic ............................................................................................................................... 5
3. The Rubric ....................................................................................................................................... 7
4. STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT ........................................................................................................... 8
5. APA 7TH EDITION REFERENCING GUIDE......................................................................................... 61
6. Past Project that got 95%.............................................................................................................. 67
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1. Instructions
Research Area: Social Psychology
Project Title: Gender Collective Narcissism: What are the implications for Gender Equality?
Limited to 200 students
Project Description
• The concept of collective narcissism is the “belief that one’s own group (ingroup) is
exceptional and entitled to privileged treatment, but it is not sufficiently recognized
by others” (Golec de Zavala et al., 2019, p. 37).
• Any social group can endorse this belief, and people can hold a collective narcissistic
belief about various groups they belong to.
• Although collective narcissism can be considered as an aspect of ingroup
identification and, thus, pertains to the positive evaluation of the ingroup, it differs
from concepts like positive distinctiveness (Tajfel & Turner, 1979; 2001), or ingroup
satisfaction (Leach et al., 2008) because of its unrealistic exaggeration of the
ingroup’s deservingness.
• Existing research has demonstrated that collective narcissism is related to prejudice
towards minorities, sexism, intergroup hostility (e.g., xenophobia), retaliatory
aggression, and support for populist parties, politicians (e.g., Trump) or politics
(Golec de Zavala & Lantos, 2020).
• The outcomes of collective narcissism have in common the coercive advancements
of the ingroup’s interests over those of outgroups.
• Gender equality is often spoken about but hardly achieved anywhere in the world.
• According to literature, violence against women is associated with the expression of
toxic masculinity, and as a means to gain respect from and control over women.
• It is, however, important to stress that women’s demand (or men’s support for
women) to be recognized as equal is NOT motivated by gender collective narcissism.
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• Instead, gender collective narcissism will motivate women and men to pursue the
gender ingroup’s goals in adversarial ways (Golec de Zavala & Keenan, 2022).
• The latter is informed by the fact that gender collective narcissism results in the
coercive advancement of the ingroup’s interests over those of outgroups.
• As in any research, human interactions can hardly be explained by the relationship
of two psychological phenomena.
• It is, therefore, always important when we do psychological research to consider
additional factors that add to a more realistic – that is, complex picture – that can
help us distinguish between different effects of overlapping psychological concepts.
• Therefore, the present study will also consider the role of ingroup satisfaction
(Leach et al., 2008) and zero-sum beliefs (Chernyak-Hai et al., 2022; Różycka-Tran,
2021; Wilkins et al., 2022).
• When endorsing zero-sum beliefs, people tend to perceive situations and
relationships from a win-lose perspective; that is to say, when one gains (e.g., more
access to economic resources for women), the other loses (e.g., less access to
economic resources for men).
• Or, to put it differently, zero-sum outcomes refer to situations in which one person's
loss is another person's gain, like in a chess game, whereas non-zero-sum outcomes
refer to situations in which both persons gain or lose.
Students in this research project will learn about the psychological concept:
• of collective narcissism,
• ingroup satisfaction,
• zero-sum beliefs,
• and attitudes toward gender equality,
• as well as their relationships.
