FIU Internet Daters Body Type Preferences Race Ethnic & Gender Differences Essay

We are going to DECONSTRUCT (take apart, examine the pieces of) an academic article.

I have attached the article: “Internet Daters’ Body Type Preferences: Race–Ethnic and Gender Differences”

After reading your article, “deconstruct” it… tell me what you found. You should address the following questions in your paper:

• Who was/were the authors?
• What was the title?
• What journal did it come from, and what volume and issue was it published in?
• What is the research hypothesis (what do the researchers want to study)?
• What research method did the authors use? (How do you know? Justify your answer with information from the Social Psychology Reader.)
• Was this the best research method, or would another method have worked better? Why do you think this? (You should name an alternative method from the Social Psych Reader in order to best answer this question.)
• Would the results be different if a different research method were used?
• How many people participated in the study?
• What was the goal of this research? In other words, what were the researchers trying to find out?
• What did the researchers actually find? (Summarize the findings.) Was this consistent with the hypothesis, or different? (Were the researchers surprised?)
• Did the researchers mention any limitations to this study? If so, what were they?
• Did the researchers make any suggestions for future research?

Write up your results in an academic manner. (Use citations and attach a Works Cited or Reference page.) This paper should be AT LEAST 3 FULL pages long, plus the reference page. (NO LESS THAN 950 WORDS in the body of your paper!).