Jyoti Varshney

FB21005
Session 5
1. Study motivation: a) argument for the need and b) argument for the need
fulfilment
Study Motivation Laurin & Fitzsimons, 2012
Need Argument The paper comes up with the argument that even the
What appears to be known concepts related to God is having enough importance
is actually not known/what in every culture. Still, there is a lack of knowledge
hitherto remains neglected regrading the influence of exposure to God
needs attention representation on behavior. This study is using
conventional & contemporary theories on social
cognition & self-regulation to predict the two distinct
effects of exposure to the concepts of God
(omnipotent & omniscient) on self-regulatory
processes.

Need Fulfillment The findings of this paper fulfills the need of

Argument
In what way we are
disadvantaged by not
knowing that/in what way
we shall gain by knowing
that
examining the exposure of God’s influence on self-
regulation and suggests that present cultural reminders
of God can work as both burden & benefit for self-
regulation.

2. Reflect on the topic choice of the article. What makes this topic significant?
The reasons which make this topic significant is that the self-regulation concept of
god influencing among people is first of its kind study and the other reason is that this
study is also novel because of having the potential to change conversation of how
exposure of God influences self-regulation among people from effects of religiosity.

3. Reflect on the “Title” and the “Abstract”. What kind of purposes the two are
serving?
Both the title & the abstract leads to articulation of the research question & catches
attention of the readers by creating the sense of curiosity. The abstract of the study
 provides the reason behind this research and portrays the whole picture by including
the study constructs, the theme & the six studies that helped the researchers to reach
the result. And also abstract mentions about the study's methodology as well as its
findings. Typically, they just provide assistance & comprehend the phenomenon that
is being researched.

4. What are the features of the “Introduction” of this article?

The paper uses past literature in the introduction to give a theoretical base of the
concepts used in the paper. And the authors have effectively confined the focus to a
particular research subject. They have clearly examined what they are examining in
this study and what not. So rather than religiosity they are very much specific to
cultural concept of God.
They justify the current research by mentioning about the existing literature in the
related field and their findings.

5. For what purposes, literature review is used in this article?

The primary focus of literature review is to understand and establish the
understanding of different constructs, which are important for hypotheses building. It
describes the available literature on relevant themes and further research towards the
development of the hypothesis.

6. What are the features of the “Method” and the “Result” sections of this article?
The method & the result section fulfill all the three required characteristics which are
accuracy, clarity & credibility. It has clearly explained the selection of the
participants, the procedure being used in the study and primary analysis. It also
includes the details about the scale used and also tried to give a demographics of
participants using table.

7. What would an expert learn by going through the article?

This article is a good example to understand the abstract, introduction, theory discussion
with literature, methods and results, appropriate discussion, and the future research
implications in the area. By reading this article, an expert will learn interesting new
insights of this topic about how exposure to God influences self-regulation among people.
8. How are the references crafted for the article?
There are number of seminal research have been cited & formatted as and when
required for theory grounding. The paper has used accurate bibliography that includes
the correct author’s name, proper volume & page numbers of the source and the year
of publication.