Norm-Breaking Experiment

I even began to laugh along with the people that laughed at me. In the end, I was just having fun with the situation. I have to say that as my experiment progressed, I became more interested in why people were reacting the way they were reacting. The curiosity of why people seem to be so uncomfortable only by watching me walk around with my clothes inside out began to increased. I was very intrigued by how much power social norms had on peoples’ behaviors such as reacting to behaviors that do not follow those norms they live by. During my norm-breaking project I did not experienced any negative feelings such as anger or being annoyed because of peoples’ reactions. Yet, I was slightly shocked at times with how people reacted but that was all. Overall, despite of being nervous at the beginning, I had a little too much fun with causing people to react the way they did towards myself for wearing my clothes inside out.

The first day of my experiment, the first reaction I got was from the lady of the tiger café at school. I usually go get something to eat every night before class and when I walked in that night I greeted her as usually and I …show more content…
Especially, when we see things that we are not accustomed to, we normally react and judge people because in our eyes that behavior is abnormal. We know these behaviors are not normal because that is what our society has taught us. Things such as wearing your clothes inside out or not wearing clothes at all, is not normal in our culture. Society have established expected behaviors that people from the same culture should follow and when these expectations are not being follow, people tend to unkindly judge others as being weird or abnormal. I think people also reacted this way because we are accustomed to certain behaviors and ways of doing things that this pattern becomes second nature to