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POSSIBLE RESEARCH TOPICS
| the education of your sense of touch |
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| the erosion of sense experience in contemporary society |
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| the connection between sensory deprivation and creativity |
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| an olfactory geography of your community, school, workplace |
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| the role of education in sense perception |
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| the role of the mind in visual experience |
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| the politics of memory |
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| how memories are preserved in our culture |
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| the role of family in personality construction |
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| impact of media on sense of self |
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| analyze multiple interpretations of a story or legend |
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| the democratizing function of narrative (using stories from media) |
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| attitudes towards animals and “wildness” in our culture |
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| survey and analyze the media portrayal of animals |
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| the impact of electronic technology on the self |
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| the gendering of depictions of machine minds in pop culture |
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| artificial intelligence as religion |
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| subjects that are taboo in our culture |
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| contemporary political language |
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| the use of euphemism in contemporary society |
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| the setting of educational standards in the US |
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| how chaos theory has altered the way scientists view the limits of their own inquiry |