Breaking Social Norms

Zuleyma

• 1.The social norm I chose to break was to ask my mom for permission to do everything, including getting a drink,using the bathroom etc. I did this in my house where my younger sister, older sister, grandma and my cousin were watching. My cousin knew I was going to do it so she keep track of everyone's reaction. 2. My mom was looking at me kind of freaked out because she thought that I was up to something. My sisters were judging me because they thought I was trying to get attention by asking stupid questions. I felt judged by my family, that's how i felt. 3.I wasn't surprised by how they reacted because the way I was acting wasn’t like normal. I think they reacted the way they did because I was acting weird and asking permission for little things. This taught me that if you are not acting the way other people do you will get judged. Reflection: What I could have done better was to turn in my assessment in on time in order for me to receive a higher grade.

Elcar

• The social norm I broke was yelling to people when they talk to me. The reaction people gave me was like “damn Elcar you don't got to fucking scream” (Mikael Barrera) and I just laughed it out, and I explained that it was for my psychology class. Also the one that said to chill was Sergio I was screaming his name in lunch and I guess he didn’t like it, but I kept doing it. At the end he just decided to ignore me. My witness was Eban he was watching me doing it in lunch. Some emotions that they displayed were being aggressive and using bad language. I felt that It’s rude yelling at people when they haven’t done anything. I feel that my friends acted this way with me because i’m never like that, i’m always calmed. I wasn’t surprised about anybodys reactions because my friends are usually like that. This experience taught me that yelling at people when you're mad is not the right thing to do, because certain people have different reactions to your approach.

Jamie

• The first social norm I broke was disrupting Mr.Bernstein's class. To be honest it was unintentional, but my friend Katherine was getting on my nerves. She drew on my whiteboard, I thought it was rude so I yelled at her, drew on her white board and threw a marker at her forehead. That caught Mr.Bernstein’s attention and I was chastised in front of class for my behavior. The next day I bought Katherine a bag of lemon Lays as a sign of forgiveness. My family and I went to dinner at the Rodeo. As we were eating I was on my phone the entire time. My dad was telling me to get off the phone and I was like ‘okay’, then I’d put away and just pull it out and start using it again. He saw that I did and instead of confronting me, he’d complain to my mom about my behavior, that I was addicted to my phone and basically talking about all my flaws.

Gerson

• I decided to break social Norms. I broke this social norms in class, it was in th afternoon when everyone was already energized. I used my hands and a witness to do this experient.The whole class was watching . Yes yes i was getting help from a person in class. I recored the responses of others by having my helpe write down what she was seeing everyones reactions.My own responses i i waited till after the experiment to write down what i saw. They looked confused when i started clapping but then they started clapping little by little until they noticed that nothing was really going on. They didn't say nothing, just giggled a bit then went back to themselves. They displayed no conformity in the situation. I felt i was violating the social norm because i was clapping out of nowhere with no reason to be clapping. I think they started acting that way because i started clapping out of nowhere. No i was not surprised of the reactions in the class because i have done the clapping out of nowhere before . I learned from this experience that even no someone might be doing something out of the extraordinary they will still follow to not be left out. Reflection We watched videos of these experiments and how people reacted to them and followed other people doing stuff they shouldn’t be. Next time i will pay attention more to have my work more easy and fully understand it.

Dulce

• 1. Method: What norm did you decide to break? I decide to break down “Talk To Others While They Are Busy” Describe your methods: where were you? I was at my house When was it? Last night How did you do it ? I did it to my dad while he was talking to my mom . He got really mad Who was watching ? My two sisters Was somebody helping you? I just told my middle sister to watch, what I was going to do . How did you record the responses of others? My dad was like why would you do that , you know your mom and me didn't teach you that then why are you doing it if you know it's not right . My mom was like are you okay? Don't ever do that again because I swear I will hit you ...this time I will let it pass just cause you did it to your dad and me ..but if you do something like this while i’m talking to other people I will hit you in front of them . How did you record your own responses? I got Scared because my parents were talking while I just went up to them talking about my birthday party . 2. Results: How did people respond to you? They got really mad but oh well What did they say? They got really mad because since I was little they were always tell us things , they don't like us doing like don't talk to us while we are talking to someone and of course for this assignment I did that. I went to talk to my dad while he was talking to my mom What emotions did they display? The way how I act while they were talking How did you feel while you were dling the social norm? I was shaking because I knew what I was doing it wasn't right . 3. Discussion: Why do you think they acted that way? They don't like me doing stuff like that when I know it's not right and I keep doing it . My dad is the one who has all this Rules. Were you surprised by any of the reactions you saw, including your own? What did this experience teach you? We can't talk to people while they are talking to someone else no matter what , if we really need to talk to them. We got to wait for them to finish talking . 4. Reflection: did you do in psychology class that led to academic success? What can you do better next time in class? I don't I just did it how I planned it and it's came out how I wanted it .

Edith

• I decided to test the theory of going against social norms and the influence of doing it in a public setting. I choose one of the examples that goes against a social norm it was to look toward the ceiling and see if other people in the room would do the same. I made my friend Michael observe the other people that were in the room and recorded what they were doing. Every person that approached me would look up and staying looking there until i looked front again and they followed since they saw more than one person doing it they thought that they should conform to fit in with what everyone was doing.. They asked what i was looking at and proceeded to look toward the ceiling. Confusion was the only emotion they showed. I thought it was amusing while i was doing it because even though they didn't understand why i was doing it they decided to do the exact same thing. I think that the curiosity of why i was doing prompted them to do it as well and this taught me how because a person can see an action being taken it can influence them to do it as well this is called Deindividuation. Deindividuation is when a person loses their grasp of self awareness in groups.

Andy

• I decided to invade other individuals personal space by just standing or sitting very close to them. However, this did not come as planned because I broke another type of social norm which was “breaking a wind” in a public location. I was at the mall shopping for some new clothes and I had to use the restroom, upon arriving I vented my way to an open stall. One individual in particular told me to excuse myself in which I responded not so kindly that the location was in fact a restroom, and from there him and I had a long and arguing conversation about where is the right place to “cut the cheese”. Other people were listening to our conversation, some of them were giggling, one of them was actually recording our conversation. I felt pretty foolish by having this conversation at the moment of relieving myself, the individual was getting to nerve so I started getting hot headed with him; I started cursing at him and I raised my voice at the level that people were noticing our conversation inside the room. The only reason that I think he that way was because the individual was an old, elderly, senior citizen, stubborn, and white. The other reason could be because he had nothing to do and so he just started bugging me with the most dull-witted conversation in the most embarrassing moment, in which I personally don’t know why I responded to him I should have just ignored him from the beginning.