I'm picking a topic for my Psychology Honours dissertation next year and I've got so many options and interests that the overabundance of choice is near paralyzing. So in the interests of crowd sourcing and hopefully writing about something of substance, I'd like to hear suggestions for potential directions I could take. It can be any idea but one that frequently pops up on less wrong and needs further exploration or exposure would be ideal.
Basically feel free to offer suggestions but ideally I want something that (assuming I do it right) would help lay a part of the groundwork required to build up someones rationality.
SeventhNadir, are you in Australia? What's an Honours dissertation there? Is it something you do at the end of undergraduate college, or is it a graduate thing? (I apologize for American vocab; I don't know any different).
The reason I'm asking is, I want to take my undergrad thesis to publication sometime in the next two-three semesters. There's room to accommodate a couple psychology questions into a really neat questionnaire, if you're not afraid of being laughed at (I wasn't, and graduated with highest honors).
You surely know about the conjunction problem? Brilliant classic. Anyways, the gist of my idea is there in the comments, but since then I came up with a couple ways to test my hypothesis. I am a bit anxious that someone's already done that. I'll do a literature search later.
Anyways, we should talk more if you're at all interested. Obviously, this suites an undergrad project way better than a graduate one.
You do it at the end of a university degree. It is technically an undergraduate thing although it is for most intents and purposes a half sized masters by research. The order goes undergrad degree -> honours -> masters -> PhD except you can skip either or both of the middle two depending on preference, who you know and whether you need a scholarship.