A list of online sources with psychology dissertation topics

There are many fields of study within psychology. That being said there are many topics that you can write about no matter your sub-field. If you are interesting in a paper on cognitive psychology you can write about any of the items below:

• The creation of judgment
• How language is learned
• What creates false memories
• Attention span
• What dreams are and why they are important
• How perception alters reality
• Problem solving

If you are instead looking for a topic related to the field of developmental psychology you can review the list below and see if any topic strikes you:

• The aging process
• Bullying and what causes it
• Media violence and how it impacts children
• Different parenting styles and which is better
• Social gender roles and their psychological impact
• Prenatal development
• How people acquire language
• How to work with learning disabilities
• Child abuse and what can be done to stop it

For those who are writing a paper on social psychology and looking for inspirational topics look over the list below:

• Leadership styles
• Racism and how it can be stopped
• What creates sexism
• Person perception and what facial features have to do with it
• What creates attitudes
• What causes attraction
• Nonverbal communication
• Social cognition
• The influence of cults
• Stockholm Syndrome
• Prosocial behavior and its effects in school settings

Remember that there are thousands of topics within the field of psychology on which you can write your paper. Take some time to review the list above and also to review your course textbooks and lecture notes. See if there is anything of interest in there which you can use as a potential topic. Remember to pick something that is of interest to you. The more passionate you are about a subject the easier and more entertaining it will be to study that topic.

If for example you have an emphasis in clinical or social psychology or life span development you can write on topics such as:

• Gender-emotion methods of non-verbal communication
• Risk factors and different prevention methods for depression
• Gender differences in emotional functioning and development compared to the differences in social development
• The ability of children to decipher emotions in music
• Cultural differences found in emotions
• The first impressions made by moving faces
• How to use virtual reality to study facial stereotypes