Grocery Breaching Study

Food is a necessity for human survival and there are varieties of places for us to obtain the nutrients we need. These include restaurants, food vendors, farmer's markets, and the most common source, grocery stores. According to the website Statista, the average consumers' weekly grocery shopping trips in the United States, as of 2016, was 1.6 ("Consumers' weekly"). Since the majority of Americans are going to the store almost twice a week, there is a routine people have established. They encounter cashiers, designated aisles, and one of the smaller details, buggies. As people walk in, the first thing they do, out of habit, is grab a grocery cart. I can almost guarantee that when a person selects one, they push from the side with the long handgrip closer to the pull out seat. Is that not what you do? I know that is how I use it, but can it be pushed around the opposite way? Would that really matter? In my breaching experiment, I decided to study the effects on society when an individual takes an ordinary item (grocery buggies), in an ordinary place (grocery store), and …show more content…
This is obviously no real harm to someone, so the probability of a person making a comment would be on the lower end. The only thing that might urge an individual to say something is if they viewed the child as sitting in an unsafe manner, out of fear that they could fall out. In response to the reactions of the people in the store, I would foresee to learn about the intensity of social judgement. People often make assumptions and opinions about another person in a short amount of time, so in this case, the experimenters are publicly displaying irregular behavior in a natural social context. The opportunity for discrimination and humiliation is there, so the experiment sets up to see how many people will respond to something that does not affect them in any direct