To complete the social norm experiment, I went to the mall. I stared at people in different areas of the mall until I got a reaction from them. Sometimes I sat down at their table and others I just stood in front of them. The social norm that I violated was continuous eye contact without turning or looking at something else, which is not normal for people to do.
Before working on the experiment I assumed that everybody would take it in a different way but several of them vocalized it the same by saying, "It was weird", which is how I would of explained it as well. Also, before I did this, I expected people to respond in the ways that I think I would. It was very interesting to watch when they didn’t react as expected because it's something …show more content…
He didn’t pay any attention to me and when I asked him questions he just seemed grumpy. At first I thought his reaction was because he was an older man, but since then I've had time to think about it and it might have been because it was late and maybe the guy just wanted to relax and read his book. I came to this conclusion because after him I went and sat in between two younger ladies. One laughed and smiled and the other got angry and walked off which didn’t seem to be a very logical reaction to me as I didn’t even see that as a possibility therefore I didn’t get her response. However I did get to interview her friend who said she just thought it was weird that someone would come and sit in between them as they were talking. I understand how the first girl was agitated because I wouldn’t want someone to come sit in on one of my conversations. So in retrospect, maybe it's not age but the time of day that I conducted the experiment. Who knows? It could be any number of things that could have affected the way they acted. Then when I went to the mall the second time I sat next to a lady and it didn’t even faze her that I was staring at her. She tried to start a conversation, then when I was interviewing her, she said me staring was kind of weird but it didn’t really bother her. Being weird seemed to be a reoccurring theme to the people I talked
Before working on the experiment I assumed that everybody would take it in a different way but several of them vocalized it the same by saying, "It was weird", which is how I would of explained it as well. Also, before I did this, I expected people to respond in the ways that I think I would. It was very interesting to watch when they didn’t react as expected because it's something …show more content…
He didn’t pay any attention to me and when I asked him questions he just seemed grumpy. At first I thought his reaction was because he was an older man, but since then I've had time to think about it and it might have been because it was late and maybe the guy just wanted to relax and read his book. I came to this conclusion because after him I went and sat in between two younger ladies. One laughed and smiled and the other got angry and walked off which didn’t seem to be a very logical reaction to me as I didn’t even see that as a possibility therefore I didn’t get her response. However I did get to interview her friend who said she just thought it was weird that someone would come and sit in between them as they were talking. I understand how the first girl was agitated because I wouldn’t want someone to come sit in on one of my conversations. So in retrospect, maybe it's not age but the time of day that I conducted the experiment. Who knows? It could be any number of things that could have affected the way they acted. Then when I went to the mall the second time I sat next to a lady and it didn’t even faze her that I was staring at her. She tried to start a conversation, then when I was interviewing her, she said me staring was kind of weird but it didn’t really bother her. Being weird seemed to be a reoccurring theme to the people I talked