A quote by Julien Smith once said “everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.” With that being saying I choose to be “deviant” in psychology terms and go against a norm. I broke the norm of standing towards the doors in elevators. Often norms are set due to people conforming and just because an action is set in place based off society standards does not mean it is actually correct. The theory in which I choose to study was normative influenced by Solomon Asch (pg 260). Normative influenced is people going along with the crowd to be liked or accepted in society eyes. It has been proven that people having a sense of accept improves one’s chances for survival (pg 260). I choose this
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In my first attempt there were eight people waiting on the elevator, including myself. Three in which were men and four in which were women. One out of three men turned and looked behind himself to see what I was looking at. Three out of the four women were asking me questions, as in what I was looking at. They wanted to engage in conversation to know if I had problems or something was wrong with the people I was looking at. The results personally show me that men seem to less likely to care about what was going on. As far as women, I believe some of them thought I was probably looking at them because I had something negative to say or that something they had said to each was wrong. Which in reality, I was just doing a class assignment but I could see how on a daily basis how assumptions are main between people. On the other hand, the second attempt there was four participants, all in which were women. The two women that entered the elevator and seen the group facing the back of the elevator, displayed wanting to conform because they figure something must of being going on in the back of the elevator. As in for the next group of five students two males and three females. Both the men and women just got on the elevator and waited until their stop. Some of them looked but no one seem bothered or interested to actually turn around and follow the
In my first attempt there were eight people waiting on the elevator, including myself. Three in which were men and four in which were women. One out of three men turned and looked behind himself to see what I was looking at. Three out of the four women were asking me questions, as in what I was looking at. They wanted to engage in conversation to know if I had problems or something was wrong with the people I was looking at. The results personally show me that men seem to less likely to care about what was going on. As far as women, I believe some of them thought I was probably looking at them because I had something negative to say or that something they had said to each was wrong. Which in reality, I was just doing a class assignment but I could see how on a daily basis how assumptions are main between people. On the other hand, the second attempt there was four participants, all in which were women. The two women that entered the elevator and seen the group facing the back of the elevator, displayed wanting to conform because they figure something must of being going on in the back of the elevator. As in for the next group of five students two males and three females. Both the men and women just got on the elevator and waited until their stop. Some of them looked but no one seem bothered or interested to actually turn around and follow the