Career Reflection : FICTIONAL WRITER

Introduction

The definition of an Author is often widely accepted as a writer of a written work but best defined as a person who gave existance to anything or an originator of an idea and whose authorship that hold responsibility for the creation. (Magill, Frank N. ,1974).  Fictional Authors are responsibles for composing short stories, plays and novels with the tools of imaginary characters, events and facts. Writers or Authors have been a very essential part of a community throughout histories, from creating fictional tales that subtly shows the tragedy and lifestyle of a their times as how Shakespeare's plays often do hides, giving an insight of a focused group of the society that often shrugged by the community such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, showing the harsh cold reality of a glorified situations as how many of Ernest Hemingways works often focus upon, or even creating a whole world of possibilities and fantasies which often been in the focused of many writers from JRR Tolkien, Douglas Adams and many more.

Writers are generally a one man team operation or works in a very limited group of selected individuals to ensure complete control of the idea. A specific ideal publication is often set as the writers goal as he began writing, with a immense amount of research on the particular topic  and a long tedious time consuming hours of compiling the informations into a single form of an original work. The work would then be submitted to the publishers for evaluation on its market purchase possibilities and once approved their works will be printed to the public. Often writer tends to sell the ideas and stories for their new work to the publishers before the begin the actual writing, this is to avoid putting a great time on something that wouldnt be able to be published.  Often the first time writers would have the luxury of selling their ideas to the publishers and thus many young writers often struggles to sucess. 

To become a fiction writer, there are no formal educational requirements needed. All it takes to become great are the practising and perfecting their skills and technique of writing and a widely expanding range of imagination. In addition, the main quality need in a writer is the focus, patience and determination to a single work without distractions for a long period of time. Most writers spend a great deal of their time to expose themselve into different style and techniques of writing by reading other writers works. Though a writer has no need for a formal educational requirements but it is highly recommended that a young writer to finish high school and attend a liberal arts institutions with a respectable English Department that would help to refine their research skills and expose a broader and in depth look at the writing techinques and the world of literature. As a writer working expriences are not at all relative towards publishing a book but it is highly acknowledgeable in the literacy world that general expriences of life would often enhance the understanding of the writer on particular subjects. So in conclusion, a writer doesnt necassarily need a job expriences that is related to writing but best to have an job  exprience of any kind to truly understand the society and general public.

Interest

From the results of the RIASEC test in Lesson 2, i could evalute my interest in future occupation. With a RIASEC code of 1-6-13-0-3-1, it is a high evidence that my choices and interest for a career revolves around the artistic appreciation of expressive nature. The choices made in the activity provided in the lesson shows a starkling tendency to options that highly abstract in nature of the statement. The choicest made is less technical and more expressive in manner. The Likes are often towards Artistic Expressionism and the Dislikes are often towards the Rules of Instructing Routines or physical works. It is also understood that my motivation and purpose of finding a career is to find a job that excites my creativity skills and a deep value in finding aesthetics appreciation from the society.

This results could easily be seen in my choice of a career as a fictional writer. The aspects of becoming a Fictional Writer that really interest me is the oppurtunity to tell a story of truth that entwined with my expression of my imagination. To truly explore the depth of my creative mind and note it all down onto written words for the sole purpose of communicating my perspective views of the reality, beliefs and understanding of the social norms to the general public is also a great aspect of becoming a fictional writer  that fuels my interests. Just to have a single reader or listener to the stories that i have created in my minds are one of the greatest reward i could even find in becoming a fictional writer. In addition to inspiring generations of young minds and changing the ways of society's behavior towards a certain elements of life are quite a tantalizing rewards of becoming a reknown fictional writer.  Last but least of the aspects and rewards of becoming a famous writer is the security of an immortal after life when your name will always be remembered alongside your novels, though this aspect is least confessed in many writers but its almost every human desire to be immortalized even after death.

From evaluating and comparing my RIASEC code with the criteria of my chosen career, it made it easier for me to understand my choicest and whether i could fit the criteria of becoming a fictional writer. The results of my RIASEC code shows a corresponding values of becoming a writer, my choices disliking rules and directions plus the interest shown in arts, conceptual thinking of abstract content goes along with many of the values that a fictional writer would need. The RiASEC code comparisson also shows a few values which are lacking in me that is important to ensure a better future as a fictional writer. The values that is has to give in need of development in myself which would benefit my comfort with my chosen career are lack of structure interest and socializing values. I would need to develop a higher structure lifestyle in order to ensure the discipline neeed to focus on writing a book without distractions of procrestination. The socializing values in myself should be develop as well in order to have a agreeable relationship with the publishers and as well to understand the general public demands which both would ensure a easy selling work that speaks to the public and accept by the terms of publishers. This two developments would definately ensure a higher chances of sucess in the literature industry.

Personality

Analysis of my results from the Leonard's Personality Inventory short test shows the characteristics of an 'Openess Swan' that has the personalities of an impulsive decision makings, a tendancy for the novelty of creative bliss and none structured environments. My personality 'bird' also shows the characteristic of my personality that dislikes in cooperating works for there is a high importance in searching freedom and fun in order to stop the tendancy of boredom in me. The results of the personality short test has an amazing accurency in describing my personalities which i would normally overshadow it.

From understanding the areas of my personality there is a few criteria which fits perfectly with my job choice of a writer. My personality of a search for freedom and fun with the addition of novelty addiction fits perfectly with the aspect of being a fictional writer who task is to desribe the struggle for the beauty of life in the most unusual ways. This Bohemian values is important in writers whos task in society as a source of knowledge and truth of the beauty of the world, though without this personality an individual can still become a writer but very unlikely to be accepted as a fictional writer. This personality in many ways add the human qualities and element in the work which without it would be dull. Another personality that fits perfectly with the criteria of becoming a fictional writer is the tendency to seek the narcotic moment of an absolute creative bliss where nothing else matters but the focused imagination of that specific time. This personality would add an aspect of perfectionism in the work in hand thus ensuring the quality of the arts written. This personality is only able with the right passion towards the proper subject.

Other aspect of my personalities that are not exactly suitable with my chosen career of being a fictional writer is the value of high tendency of boredom and the impulsive behaviours. With a personality of easily bored would distract my attention in focusing on a single subject of literature work, thus having the habit of countless  uncompleted works and could even lead to incapble of finish to complete a full assignment by the publishers. This personality would really jeopardize my relationship with the publishers and could even lose all credibility of a respectable reputation. The other personality that would be negative towards my choice of career is the impulsive behaviours of decision making, though this is closely in relation to the tendency of boredom but an impulsive behaviour is actually far worse for my choice of career. In fact impulsive behaviours has a higher negtive values even in life for i might jump tracks and choices even in career. In the aspect of being a writer, an implusive behaviour could easily see as a negative personality because one could easily change the style of writing or even content of the book more than once and it would lead to a total confusion in the readers.

This two corresponding negative personality traits that could jeopardize my sucess in the chosen career are easily fixed with a simple tool of adaption. The personality traits of easily bored and impulsive behaviour could easily be seen in many of the previous famous fictional writers such as Edgar Allen Poe and Douglas Adams. This two great minds have the tendency of procrastinations when dealing with their publishers and often changes their subject of story without much second thought. In Edgar Allen Poe's case, he has reduced the chances of confusion in his written works by keeping it to a minimun structures of Short Stories writing. Thus overcoming his personality traits. In the case of Douglas Adam's impulsive behaviour, he has cleverly added his negative traits to a unique style of story telling in the most random manners.  Douglas Adams has adapted his impulsive behaviour into a random style of writing. In many ways, the two negative personality traits should not be a hurdle for accomplishing the dreams of becoming a published fictional writer but rather the catylst to explore deeper into the new techniques of literature.
 

Skills

From the results of the skills checklist in Lesson 5, the skills I posses was skills thats involves the action of making something new such as composing, creating, designing, developing, originating and fabricating skills which are essentials skills in the chosen career of Fictional Writers. Without these skills, the ideas and content of that particular writer would be lacking in originality. The results also shows skills that i possesed was skills that involves the action of finding the origin of an idea such as the identifying skills, founding, evaluating, defining and analyzing skills which would help the writer to truly appreciate the origin of an idea and innovate from there.  Thus the next set of skills that would benefit a writer is the skills which the results also stated is in my possesion is the set of skills that involves the action of innovating an old idea such as expanding, improving, inventing, modifying, editing and correcting skills. These skills would help the writer to take an old idea and recreate it to an upgraded version of the old idea. The skills checklist also shows other sets of skills that could benefit me in my chase for becoming a fictional writers such as travelling skills and reading skills that are useful but not really necassary for a writer.

With the results of my skills checklist and my understandings of the fictional writer's skills criteria, it is safe to say that i posses the major set of skills required for becoming a publish author. The important skills required are met with a few additional set of skills that are benificial toward the career. Yet unfortunately there was a few skills that are lack in myself which are crucial in becoming a published fictional writer such set of skills as completing, deciding and enforcing. These three skills are important for with lack of completing skills a writer would almost certainly fail to finish writing a book. Deciding and Enforcing an idea is despretely needed in myself for without a proper enforcement of the decision my mind would never stick to a focused idea, hence procrastinates the work and thus failing to complete the work in hand. The sets of skills are really important for me to improve and develop to avoid any trouble and inconviences in the future of my career. 

Other sets of skills which are not essential but would also help my career as a fictional writer is the skills of publishing, promoting, publicizing skills. With these additional skills i would be able to self publish my works without the constraint of a deadline or publishes protocal, plus there would be less censorships or third-party involvements in your writings, thus enabling a true natural form of your story and writings. The book would be exactly how the writer wished it to be potrayed. Promoting and publicizing skills are additional skills that are important to the publishing skills in order to ensure success in your self publishing book.

Values

Evaluation of my Life Value Preferences shows a results that inclines to the values that are less materialistic values but rather values that related towards abstract rewards of recognitions and cultural or social impacts. These values that i posess often relates towards the characteristics of my personalities and interests in life. The values which are in my possesion towards life and career is that a job shouldnt be a mode of substaining your existance but rather a medium to celebrate these expriences of being alive. In life my values are not to chase the materialistic security of life but rather to explore the beauty and tragedy of life which often entwines with the expanding imagination and if at all possible note it all down for the future generation references of your cultural existances. Thus the sub-branched abstract values from helping one another and relationships with acquintances are important values for me as well.

Unfortunately these values that are so important for me would be neither fulfilled or unfulfilled with the choosen career path.  This statement is because as a writer the chances of all the important values to be fullfilled are highly unlikely. Most famous writers are often unappreciated with the respect the well deserverd and also the impacts of their writings which most writers value so much are only visible after the death of the writers.  Thus the values which are important to me and majority of writers are achievable to its greatest visiblity only after the death of the writer. Only in recent century that the proper appreciation of writers are given to a lucky few out of the countless writers. Even so the unlucky writers are still able to achieve their values in life but sadly would only be after death. it is a gamble of life values to become a fictional writer, one could go an entire life without seeing a single interest towards his writings but yet glorified and celebrated after death and one the other hand one could easily reap the benefits of his career and fulfilled his values in a single lifetime under the right conditions. Therefore unlike many other career and just like a fine art painter, a career as a writer could easily fulfilled all aspect of my life values or completely fail to accomplish even one. It is the greatest gamble of becoming a writer and understandble why many would find most writers as insane.

Eventhough i understand and ponder upon the gamble one would take into becoming a writer, i wouldnt have chosen any other career. A writer is an important spokeperson of a generation and though i would sacrifice many of my life comforts and values, i would rather bet it all for a higher chance of a proper interpretion of my generation instead of the bad reputation we are associated with. An unlogical choice to most people but i guess its just my perspective on life.

Values are gambled in the line of literature but one could still have a higher chances of winning the casino of life with an additional fresh perspectives of values into one's life.  It could be considered as an act of selling out but with a proper moderation of a more materialistic and financial values, a writer to uses the values to motivate his needs to sell his books thus adding the chances of achieving his primary values. But a writer should learn to control his values of materialism to avoid straying away from the artistic values which would in effect lose the respects of certains generations.

In conclusion, to be come the greatest and most sucessful Fictional Writers that achieved all of his Values in one lifetime would need the act of moderating each and every aspect of his life from values, skills, and many more. To do so a human is almost inhuman in nature for humans are not perfect and thus contradicting the entire philosphy of writers. As a writers there are no fine line of right or wrong or a proper way of becoming a sucessful writers this is because the most sucessful writers are often the most uniquely unperfected human beings that speak truth in their imperfections. As a writer one gambles everything and thus the only real need of becoming a writer is to be fearless of losing everything for something that is uncertain. For me a career as a Fictional Writer is the most interesting and not properly understood or apprecriated by many. One could learn everything about literature but the expriences are far wilder and much more unique than what most imagine it will be. In my opinion, with a high tendency to be bored and a deep curiousity into the unknown has lead me to the favourable path of becoming a writer and though i know the dangers lies that ahead, i would rather take the road less taken.

note : The test and evaluation takes are given by the education institution. To see the tests and perhaps take it yourself do comment this post and i will send you a copy of them. Thank you.

References

Magill, Frank N. (1974). Cyclopedia of World Authors. vols. I, II, III (revised ed.). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Salem Press. pp. 1–1973. [A compilation of the bibliographies and short biographies of notable authors up to 1974.]

http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/124/Fiction-Writer.html

Qualitative Research Proposal on the relationships of Drugs and Arts

Abstract

Drugs usage so often are renowned to enhance the creative abilities in ones mind eventhough there are no conclusive evidence of such statement yet the tendency of artist abusing intoxicant are high in number. The objective of the study is to understand the attraction of drug abuse by creative minds and observe the relationship of the intoxicant under the influences of drugs. In order to achieve the study, participants of artists from different variety of criteria which admitably uses drugs in their creative process and depicted subtly in their arts. The study will conduct under the design of a semi-structured interviews and observation of the subject and its environment. In conclusion, the datas that will be obtained from the study would help to better understand drug abuse and creative minds.

Introduction

Creativity is the usage of imagination and original ideas in a production of an artistic works. Art is an expression of a human creative skill and imagination using a variety of meduim and styles. Throughout the history of mankind a handful of creative groups of artistes have uses art to express their perspective and philosphy of their current state of time and reality. In the mid 1920s, the artistic world expriences a cultural movement that focuses on the elements of unexpected juxtapostions of a dream-like reality known as the Surrealism Revolution. It is closely related to the society's great interest in a unique and alternate reality that gives a moment of escape from their harsh and ever changing environment.

From the beginning of 1960s, the world expriences a phenomenal experimentations of intoxications that contains hallucinogenic qualities which enables the society a break from reality. Thus numerous of artistic and creative people have found a deep and significant value of drug usage in order to create an artwork of the same abstract phenomenon. Though the society soon changes its perception towards drugs abuse and began retaliating agaisnt such activities, the artistic communities seems to have a special bond and relationships towards intoxicant to the degree that many of the truely awe inspring modern artworks of an illusionalistic values are blamed or closely related to drug abuse.

But what is it about drugs that attracts the creative minds to abuse it? Why are there such a high tendancy for artist towards intoxicants to create their artworks? And what are the relationships between Drugs and Creativity? These are the questions that need to be answered and researched to a conclusive and none bias explanation. Though there are plenty of research concerning the matter of drug abuse from both the biological perspective of health issues and the psychological perspective of behavioral issues, most of these studies done are focused on the criminal activities and negative effects of drug usage.

There is a lack of understanding in the relationship between drug abuse and the effects of it on a creative human brain.  According to a reading of this topic, it is state that, They (the creative people) love novelty, which is known to increase cotical arousal (Berlyne, 1971). It is a typical stereotyping of an artist when this literature labelled that one of the biggest traits in a creative mind is the traits of oversentivity or withdrawal which leads to a lowering of the level of arousal (C. Martindale, 1999).  Thus from the lack of arousal, a craving for the novelty of a mental-stimulant is often prefered by the creative minds instead of the strong stimuli of a real-world adventure (C. Martindale, 1999).

Though this researches reasonable explanation of the phenomenon but it is purely based on a stereotyping of a artistic mind that has issues of withdrawal thus a close affection for intoxicants.  There is an enormous variation in the responds of drugs, for some a direct aesthetic inspiration is found but mostly it is an extremely significant exprience that indirect way could help the creative process (A. Huxley, 1960). From the statements of artistes who had exprience drug abuse in order to create an artwork it is easy to conclude that there is plenty of studies need to be done to understand the interconnecting of drug usage and the creative process.

It is important that such a research is to be done on this topic in order to truly understand the relationship. Such a study would benefit a wide range of audience, from the general public and art societies that could truly understand and even appreciate those artworks that depicts such a tale in a greater value to higher education institutions that offers art courses that would enables the lecturer to understand the attraction of their students to do such activities. The need for this study is important to rationalize and benefit from the understanding of the mechanism of the drugs on creative mind is to find a healthier substitution that doesnt place the artist at risk to bring beauty to the society.

The Purpose of the Study


The intention of the proposed study is to learn and understand the creative mind or artist tendancy to abuse drugs, the effects and influence of it in the process and artworks, and also the nature of their social world. The purpose of the study will be to understand and truly discover the tendancy of artist to drug abuse from a close research on a focused group of selected artist with a wide range of age and lifestyle using a variety of artistic medium and style whom of course has exprienced drug abuse. From there we could develop a hard and concrete explanation behind such phenomena.

Why do the artist abuse the drugs? When and why did the artist had the tendacy to try drugs? How does the drugs enchance the artist vision and creative process? What effects does the drugs have on the artist creative skills? Who are these creative minds and what is the artist backgrounds? What type of drugs do these artistic people tolerate and abuse? Do the artist depend on the drugs in order to create an artwork? If yes, why and how does it help? if no, then why do the artist still abuse it?

These are the central questions of the proposed study. There is without a doubt that additional questions will be included along the way through the research process once obtain a clearer clarity on the subject. The focus will be on the artists and their relationship with drugs, and each question or concern will be examined from their perspectives in order to truly understand their reasons and their views on the attachement.

Limitation of the Study

The proposed study will be approached in the manner of a qualitative research with a primary method that involves the usage of a semi-structured interview. A preliminary decriptive examination will be included of the expriences of creative process under the influence of drug from the artist's perception. It will be limited to a subject of no more than 30 artists of different age and lifestyle with various medium usage and style, and limitation of the drugs to only Cannabis, Opium, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), Cocaine, Heroine and PCP.  These limitations are due to the time constraints of interviewing and data analysis of subsequent responses.
 

 Research Paradigm

The proposed study will be approached in a qualitative research manner. The qualitative researchers often associates with theoretical perspective of  phenomenology (Bogdan & Biklen, 1982). Using the perspective of a phenomenological approach, researchers will indentify and discover the comprehension of the events and in the human interactions. in addition, the interpretation of the data by this approach would emphasize on the context accumulated. The phenomenological approach stresses the researchers to "centers on the attempt to achieve a sense of the meaning that others give to their own situations" (Smith, 1989, p. 12).

A handful of qualitative researchers have emphasize the significance of the subject's  perspective and their point of view of the world and reality (Bogdan & Taylor, 1982; Blumer, 1999; Mezirow, Darkenwald, & Knox, 1975; Rock, 1989; Rockhill, 1982; Smith, 1993). Though reliability and validity of the qualitative research methods has been highlighted, however it is plausible to study the subjective in a careful and objective manner if the important systematic procedures is followed as stressed by Glaser and Strauss (1967).  Both the data collection and analysis is describe as a rigorous and demanding process by Blumer (1969), in which the researcher is in constant revision and test of the images and conceptions of the data recovered.

Sampling

In order to fully understand the relationship and interconnection between drug abuse and the creative process, the subjects of the study would be selected from numerous groups of art societies of various style of art. For this we would visit art galleries of a specific district and find  artists which shows a significant influences of intoxication depicted in their artworks and interview them directly at the gallery itself as well as a visitation to their personal studios. This procedure is taken in order to cover as much variety of artist in their environment and exprience their culture which would enable the researchers a clearly view of their perspective.  Furthermore, with this sampling techniques all type of artist could be used who has genuine drug abuse expriences and genuine usage of it on their creative process.

Data Collection & Analysis

The methods used in order to collect the datas from this qualitative study of the drug abuse among creative people would be the primary semi-structured interviews of the selected artistes. It is proposed to begin the interviewing process as soon as the selected participant's criteria is found in the gallery in order to view his responses in a general location. Then it is suggested that the researches does a second interviewing of the subject in their secured location of their personal studios. This method is necassary in order to detect their perception on their drug abuse activity.

The interviews will be in the conversational style of informal and open-ended manner that is based on unstructured questions with occasional inquiries for clarification in order to keep the connection between the researcher and the subject to a comfortable level subsequently allowing the subject to answer in as truthful as possible. The subjects will also be asked to create a work of art in their respectative studios in both with and without the influences of drugs. The artworks would help to give a definative prove on the comparrison and add credibility to the data.

The anticipated numbers of subjects would be below 30 participants with all of their identity kept anonymous from the public unless requested otherwise. All the interviews would be video-recorded which would vary in length from 60 minutes to 90 minutes, this is to ensure all the subtle subconcious body movement of the subject is recorded in order to be scrutinized and analyzed in detailed. A transcript of the recorded interviews will be written.

Throughout the process of study data anylises would be carried out. The data obtained from the casual field notes of the interviews, analysis of the recorded interviews, and other sources of follow-up interviews and professional comments will be written into a memoranda to be reviewed by respectable figures of the topic in order to gain more clarification of the data.

 All of the files obtained will be entered into computer files. A computer software program that make use of coding system known as The Ethnographer will be utilized in order to organize the different topics and themes found in these files. In order to designate major categories and subcategories, a scheme of numbers and letters will be applied. The "Hard copies" of all computer files of data will also be classified using codes of colored pens to mark the margins with an appropriate numbers and letters.

Connections made  between categories and themes will be used to help build a structure for the organization of the data for portrayal in the final document. These documents and connections of all the data anylize would be used to further the understanding of the relationship of drug abuse in creative minds.

Reliability and Validity

The validity of this study is not a high concern for it is not so much of 'getting it right' as getting it 'differently contoured and nuanced' (Richardson 1994, p. 521). Nevertheless, there are methods that will be taken to ensure the reliability of the research. One of the methods would be the 'Unobtrusive Measures' of reducing as much as possible the researchers presences in the environment to ensure low level of disturbance. The methods would be used when interviewing the subject, it will be done in the friendliest manner to bring as much authenticity of answers from the subject.

Other methods used to prove the validity of the study is by using the statements of the respondent validation.  In this study the biggest prove of validation by the respondent would be the artworks produced under both state of conciousness. All of the data obtained from the research would be double checked and confirm its validity from the subjects interviewed and the professional guidances of figures that are closely related to the topic of the study.

References

Aldous Huxley
Huxley on Drugs and Creativity : The Paris Review (1960)
 http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n3/10317hux.html

Colin Martindale
Handbook of Creativity : Part 3 -Origin of Creativity (1999)
Chapter 7 : Biological Bases of Creativity 
Subtopic : Creativity and Need for Novelty and Stimulation (Page 144 - 145)
Cambridge University Press (NY)
http://books.google.com.my/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d1KTEQpQ6vsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA137&dq=marijuana+and+creativity&ots=Fr-X-isluZ&sig=qfuUpE-an2RLp1CTLLmGYMJtB2o#v=onepage&q=marijuana%20and%20creativity&f=false
Berlyne, DE (1971) Aesthethics and Psychohiology. New York : Appleton Century
"centers on the attempt to achieve a sense of the meaning that others give to their own situations" (Smith, 1989, p. 12).
(Bogdan & Taylor, 1982; Blumer, 1999; Mezirow, Darkenwald, & Knox, 1975; Rock, 1989; Rockhill, 1982; Smith, 1993)
Glaser and Strauss (1967)
Blumer (1969)
'getting it right' as getting it 'differently contoured and nuanced' (Richardson 1994, p. 521).

Quantative Research Proposal on Sexual Selection

Introduction

Sexual Reproduction is the process on mixing two genetic traits of the respectative parents to form an offspring. Sex has been a very important aspect of life for all living creature in existance, it is the living multicellular organisms form of actitvity to ensure the survival of the species. In our modern world where sex has become debased to a cheapened level and commodified by pornography, fashion industry and overall media how might we understand the genuine sexual desire and natural sexual appeal?  It so often seen, the stereotypical of the medias representation of the greatest form of sexual preferences. Though the medias representation are often widely accepted by general public but there are many that found not a single sexual appeal in their representation, in fact some might even find the complete opposite as their preferable sexual selection.

Sexual Selection is a variant of natural selection, the process works where one gender preferences of a suitable mate would posess a certain traits to be present. Thus those individuals that holds those traits are consider more attractive and will have a higher chance of reproductive sucess. The traits that determine a sexual preferences varies according to individuals, nevertheless a few category would always be evaluated in the process of judgement. Those categories are the body shape or  figure of the mate, the symmetry of the faces, and also odor influences of smells which alls could be classified under one social importance in a society that is the presentation of oneself.

But how does one representation effects the decision making of mating preferability? What are the relationships of the perspective of an individual contribute in choosing a mate? Which variable is has a higher importance in choosing a mate, personality or looks? Which gender holds a higher priority in a single preferences of sexual mate? These are the question that need to be experimented and focused on from the point of view of social science.

Human evolutionary pscyhological studies concerning various of cultures have shown that in the consideration of finding a mate, the male gender often rank the female beauty higher than the women ranking male on the basis of looks, instead the women  focuses onto ranking the men based on their resources far higher for obvious reasons than male ranking the female on their resources (Buss, 1994). The studies also shows that eventhough such statistic is shown, the female still do hold higher ranking value on the male looks than any male that chooses a female based on the resources ranking, this is due to the fact that choosing a male with exaggerated features indicate the presence of direct fitness benefits which will enchance the reproductive sucess(Grammer, Fink, Moller & Thornhill, 2002).

 It is a conclusive agreement that when it comes to nature and choosing a sexual mate, beauty and looks do matter.  In other words, the better looking and presentable you are the higher chances of sexual approach for approval will be seen but how does one judge a person impression solely by looks and how does personal views on the world contributes into a decision making?

The intention of the proposed study is to learn, understand and explore the interconnecting variables on the decision making in selecting a sexual partner. Specifically, the study will focus on two primary objectives of : Firstly, to determine the relationship between first impressions or presentation of oneself and the personal point of view of life from both the male and female subjects. Second objective is to determine the average and most preferable apperance in a gender that appeals the most for the opposite sex. Simultaneously other inquiries will also be answered with the research, question such as the amount of reducing preferences an individual would tolerate in finding a sexual partner and the criteria of preferences that the individual are willing to tolerate thus also finding the most general criteria of preferences craved in the opposite sex.

Based on review of literature from the biological stand point of sexual selections, a hypothesis can be created on the understandings to correlate with the objectives of the study. The hypothethical theory is that the individuals that depicts high level of both healthy pyshical postures and a wealthy style of presentation are more likely to be favourable towards the opposite sex than those competitors that contain only one or lower level of the traits. This theory can easily be backed by the biological evidence of a higher tendency towards the suggested situation. With an additional variables of the subjects personality shown for decision making, a hypothesis that can be made is that sexual preference would change and even lowered to a personality that attracts best,  though it is also theorised that the female gender would be in a higher percentage of being in favour of choosing a mate based on looks and wealth rather than personality.

The need to understand this through the eyes of social and psychological terms is important in order to truly understand interactions of the opposite gender. From creating a rationale for the study of the relationship of looks, personal views and sexual selection, it would help men and women to better understand their sexual interest and guide them into attracting mates of preference.

Method


The proposed study employs a Positivism Research Design that states the exclusive sourve of all authentic knowledge are derived from empirical evidenece which obtain, verified and add logical and mathematical treatments of data all through the sensory exprience (Macionis & Gerber, 2010) .

The Design of the study would include an indiependant variable (IV) of Pyshical Body of the subjects with Dependant variables (DV) of Style of Presentation and Personalities of the subjects.  The Dependant variables will effect the indiependant variables by higher level of presentation and personality would reconsider the selector's view on the indiependant variable of the subjects physical body.

The participants for this study would consist of 10 individuals of each gender of various background and personality which will be categorised as the Selectors Group and 4 individuals of each gender with various body structure of slim, average, chubby and fit to be the Subject. Both of the groups of individuals will be also separated into the two gender, basically 10 female Selectors with 4 male Subjects and 10 male Selectors with 4 female Subjects. All the behavioural patterns of their response will be recorded on camera to re-evaluate for subtle signs and data.

The materials needed for this study is various clothings to create the dependant variables values of Style of Presentation and Personalities , video cameras to record the variables, a computer to show the recorded video and sheets of structured questionaires.

The 4 individuals will be dressed and recorded into 5 style of dressing from the rich, the average, the punk or rebellious, the geek and the poor. Then the 4 subjects would act into roles the 5 personalities of the jerk, the good guy, the intellect, the dumb but innocent and the average and their actings will be recorded on video.
The videos of the 4 individuals and the dependant variables of style and personalities will the shown to the 10 individuals of the Selectors group and their attractiveness would be rated from 1 till 10, one being the lowest attractive value and 10 being the highly attractive. The selectors group would then have to state the reasons of their actions. This study would be done for both gender with changes of the sex on the Selectors and Subject groups.

The data accumulated and obtained from the study will the reviewed and categorized. A statistical chart will be design from the data recieved and a conclusion will be made on the findings.

References:

http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/institutes/urbanethology/resources/articles/articles/publications/199-2003-DarwineanAesthetics.pdf


John J. Macionis, Linda M. Gerber, "Sociology", Seventh Canadian Edition, Pearson Canada