In the paper, you should concisely summarize the contents of an approved peer reviewed journal article that. include an experiment on some aspect of sensation/perception. The paper should be written as if you are writing a newspaper article to appear in the science section of a
newspaper like the New York Time.

The article you will be using is: Fearful Faces Have a Sensory Advantage in the Competition for Awareness i have attached the article

The audience for your paper can be assumed to be educated and have a good vocabulary, but they can also be assumed to know nothing about psychology and maybe not too much about science in general. Your job is to explain, in your own words without using jargon, one of the experiments in the journal article. In the paper you must explain the rationale for the experiment (why the authors did what they did); what their methods were (what they did); and finally their results (what they found and what implications their findings have). If the article contains multiple experiments you do not need to describe all of them.

Remember, you should not use overly academic terminology or any technically detailed descriptions. (Failure to heed this advice is the biggest flaw in most papers that people have submitted in the past.) Instead you should summarize the experiment in language that would be understood by someone without any special knowledge about science or psychology. Remember also that in a short paper it will be difficult to describe all of the results, or to describe even a subset of the results with a great deal of detail. Thus, you should think about the most important aspect(s) of the results and describe that.

Be sure to write the paper yourself, using your own words. You need to first read the article and attempt to understand the experimental results. Then explain the experiment to your target audience. If you do not understand the article, you cannot use them for your paper.

The Grading Rubric:

Introduction: 15
10 points: You stated your topic and outlined what you will cover in your article. It is clear what the paper will
be about. This should be and appropriate length to achieve this goal.

Summary of current research/theories: 25 points
25points : You give a good background for your topic. This includes your references that relate to the topic. It details
enough ideas to clearly state what the article is about and how the ideas tie into each other and your mock
article. You have covered the paper with enough detail for a naïve reader to understand the methods and
purpose of the study. There is a clear understanding of experimental design, especially controls. It is also clear
that you understand what was observed and how it relates to the authors’ model or hypothesis.

Critical Thinking: 25points
25points: It is clear that you included your own thoughts, opinions and conclusions. You base your thoughts on the
research you summarized in the article. Some things you might include are: implications, what it all means, why
we should care, possible future research, why this area of research is important, why people should be interested
or not and so on. This is NOT an invitation to bash the research. That is not the definition of critical
thinking or purpose of this assignment.

Style, Flow, Grammar and Writing: 25 Points
20 Points: It is a college level paper. There are no grammar problems or spelling mistakes. Each paragraph has good
transition sentences that tie in the previous one and to lead you to the next topic. The individual paragraphs flow
well. If I were to read the paper out loud it would make sense. Your sentences are structured well, there is not
an overabundance of short or excessively long sentences and you use commas and punctuation appropriately.There are no direct quotes, unclear abbreviations or contractions.

References: 5
5 points: You used appropriate references.