PB2B

Part 1: article 1: Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2017). Angels everywhere? how beliefs in pure evil and pure good predict perceptions of heroic behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 387-392. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.037

Article 2: Amodio, D. M. (2014). The neuroscience of prejudice and stereotyping. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 15(10), 670- 682. doi:10.1038/nrn3800

Part 2: In both articles the researchers both examine the phenomenon of evil and goodness through the perception of the human brain, and the implications it creates for humans. Both articles are looking specifically at human behavior in response to certain stimuli or beliefs. How the two articles differ is the type of behavior the researchers are examining. In the first article the researchers are looking specifically at heroic behavior, and in the second article the researchers are looking at prejudice and stereotyping. The first article is looking at how people beliefs in pure good and evil shapes their belief in supernatural beings like angels. The second article is looking specifically at how humans naturally, almost subconsciously stereotype others and have certain prejudices, even if they do not realize it. Each researcher posed questions whether certain beliefs could be attributed to occurrences that happen in peoples mind and consciousness. 

Part 3:

Keywords for article 1: Pure evil pure good, Heroism, Attributions, Altruism, Prosociality,

Keywords for article 2: prejudice, stereotyping.

Conventions for article 1: People’s behavior, perceptions, references to other scholarly articles.

Conventions for article 2: neurological functions, human nature, references to other scholarly articles.

Affordances for article 1: easily accessed online, have definitions for keywords, can be read very easily, divides piece into digestible pieces by using subheadings.

Affordances for article 2: can be accessed both online and can be printed out, has footnotes with definitions of keywords, read very easily, divided using subheadings.

Writing style for article 1: Scholarly

Writing style for article 2: scholarly

Organization structure for article 1: Abstract, article, data, references.

Organization structure for article 2: Abstract, three subheadings, diagrams, reviews, references.

Intended primary audience for article 1: Other psychologists researching pure evil and pure good

Intended primary audience for article 2: Other psychologist researching stereotyping and prejudice.

Research method for article 1: A scientific experiment was conducted and data was compared.

Research method for article 2: Many references to previous studies on the brain to connect and back up to the claims the researchers made in the article.

Scholar’s argument for article 1: We examined the effects of belief in pure evil (BPE) and belief in pure good (BPG) on perceptions and evaluations of a stereotypically altruistic (vs. egoistic) hero who apprehended a criminal perpetrator. Overall, participants appreciably supported formal, public accolades for the altruistic hero because they more greatly deified (i.e., venerated) the altruistic hero. 

Scholar’s argument for article 2: Social motivations, such as the desire to affiliate or compete with others, rank among the most potent of human drives.

The most important thing I noticed in the first article was the experiment they conducted. This helped back up the claim they made with real hard evidence, rather than abstract, unbacked claims. The most interesting thing about the first article was how they connected the belief in pure good vs pure evil to the belief in supernatural beings like angels. The most important part in the second article I believe are the diagrams. They help the reader better visualize what is going on in the brain that causes people to behave in the ways they do. The most interesting thing I noticed about the second article was that prejudice was actually caused by neural impulses that occur in the brain.