User:Cyn1Psy/sandbox

Wikipedia Analysis The social psychology topic that I chose for the Wikipedia project is self-fulfilling prophecy. Self-fulfilling prophecy does a have a page on Wikipedia, however I feel like the current page can use some improvement. The introduction of part of the page begins with the history of the self-fulfilling prophecy, which is educational, however I think that the history aspect of it is too lengthy and fails to approach the explanation of self-fulfilling prophecy on social psychology level. The Wikipedia article makes references of social psychology by briefly referencing a book; however there are too many general examples of what a self fulfilling-prophecy is and not enough psychological explanations or details. The article also makes brief mentions of different subcategories of a self-fulfilling prophecy; however it does not go in to great detail. I also think that the subcategories mentioned in the article are missing other crucial subcategories that were failed to be mentioned such as prejudices. The article addresses some great points on self-fulfilling prophecy, however I think that the article can go more in depth about self-fulfilling prophecy without be too lengthy and keeping it brief. The article provides the readers with different examples of self-fulfilling prophecy based on different cultures, however again that refers back to history, which I think should be brief and not as lengthy. Although the article is well written, I feel that the Wikipedia page is very general and would not be as helpful for a social psychology student who would like to briefly educate themselves about self-fulfilling prophecy by learning about the different subcategories of self-fulfilling prophecy more in depth as opposed to just learning the titles. I would like to be able to give brief important details on the subcategories while still allowing the Wikipedia page to be a page where individuals can use it as reference and not a lengthy journal.

Cyn1Psy (talk) 22:31, 10 December 2013 (UTC)