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PSY 201 - Kitty Genovese

This guide will help you complete your research project for Psy 201 on Kitty Genovese's murder and its importance to social psychology.

3. Narrow Your Focus

Narrow SignOnce you've done some initial exploration about the murder, it's time to narrow your focus to some concrete aspects of the case that you want to focus on in your writing. Remember your assignment requirements and consider what you've learned thus far. Take your analyzing questions from the previous page and brainstorm / outline the elements of the case you think are most important. 

As you start to outline or brainstorm, you'll want to think about keywords that might help you find sources for your paper. See below for some help on brainstorming keywords.

Keywords

 

For keywords, think of people associated with the case--the victim, the killer, etc. Also, think about related psychology terms. See examples below:

"Kitty Genovese" or "Catherine Genovese" (Kitty was a nickname)

"Winston Moseley"

"bystander effect" or "bystander apathy"

Also consider combining these keywords in different ways. For example, searching "Genovese and Moseley" might help you find articles talking about the murder specifically rather than Kitty Genovese by herself.

 

Subjects: Psychology