Out of the Norm A Breaching Experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine people’s reactions to violations of commonly accepted social norms or rules. Norms are described as the expectations, or rules of behavior, that develop out of societies values. For this assignment, I was asked to violate a social standard by doing something out of the ordinary and observe and record the reactions of the people who witnessed the breach. The response to the break is crucial to the experiment. It is important to act as normal as possible while doing this experiment to receive honest feedback from participants. The Breaching Experiment can evoke a variety of outcomes from whispers, astonishment, laughter and in extreme cases anger. The experiment
