Research Idea

This topic submitted by Louisa Versaw and Sydney Willcox ( versawlc@muohio.edu ) on 2/3/06. [ Human Nature Team: Louisa Versaw and Sydney Willcox-Section: Cummins/Wolfe]

For our research project, we are going to be studying how Miami students judge others specifically based on appearance and the relationship between this type of judgment and human nature. The judgment of others is a quality in humans which is based on competition which is aruged to be an element of human nature. We will be asking the question, how does judgment manifest itself from competion; what is the connection between judgment and competition? We will also be asking the question: is it human nature to judge others or it a culturally constructed concept? We will be studyng the element of culture by testing students from both Western campus and main campus and comparing their answers and opinions. We will be testing the social aspect of judgment by seeing if people's judgment changes when judging in larger groups and how other can influence one person's judgments? We will use a scientific, empirical approach to our testing. We will be using an empirical approach in our studies and actual research and interpretive approach in understanding the meaning of the information we acquire and the relationship between judgment and human nature.

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