You can earn up to 50 points for the Final Project. This is a group assignment, that is due by the last week. The recommended size of the team is 4-5 persons. Each team will present (no longer than 5 minutes) their project to fellow students and to the lecturers. The project is to be no more than three standard pages of text long (one standard page = 1800 characters including spaces). It is very difficult to present your ideas convincingly in such a short space. You will be tempted to write much longer projects, but the limit will help you be more precise and accurate in your writing. Do reserve sufficient time for editing and polishing your text.

The submission deadline is May 13th 23:59. For late submissions, there is a penalty of 2 points per each day of being late (with rounding up, that is, being late 10 minutes accounts for being late one full day). There is also a bonus for early submissions: if you submit 24 hours or more before the deadline, you will receive an additional 2 points for your project.

The goal of the Final Project is to come up with your own research idea and outline how would you proceed to investigate it (experimentally or otherwise). The structure of the project follows the structure of the research paper, minus the results and discussion. Therefore, the following parts are to be included:

Problem - identify a problem, a "blank space" in current knowledge, that is interesting you and that can be investigated via experiment. Explain, why this problem deserves research attention - what makes it interesting? How is solving the problem useful? How does it relate to what we currently know? To be able to come up with such a problem, you need to do some reading before - find some research studies that deal with what you find interesting. Remember to support your claims with arguments (which means you will need to cite). We will not provide a list of problems for you, the goal here is to get creative. You are welcome to talk to us about the problem selection throughout the whole semester.

Research question/hypothesis - what is your research question? Remember, not any question stands as a research question. The hypothesis is the answer to the research question that you expect to get. If you include the hypothesis in your project, make sure to support it with arguments and citations.

Research design: What data do you need to gather? How will you go about collecting the data you need? Will you use single-shot or repeated game? A field experiment maybe? Convince the reader that you know what data you need to collect, and you have an idea about how to do it. Comment on the weaknesses of your design.

For your project topic, you are encouraged to seek inspiration in books, movies, your daily experiences and any other place you find inspiring. You are highly encouraged to discuss your ideas with the lecturer before diving too deep - it may happen that what seems like a great idea actually is not. Let's find the good ones together!

DO NOT procrastinate with the assignment too much - good research proposal is not written overnight (we tried many times). We encourage you to start thinking, reading, and discussing your Research Topics from the very beginning of the semester.

You need to present the final project and get at least 30 points to pass the course.

The points are awarded for the submitted text and for the presentation combined.

All members of the team receive the same amount of points. Not all team members need to present in the final class.

You are welcome to discuss your ideas and progress with the project throughout the semester with Michal Ďuriník or with Miloš Fišar.