Kate K

Individual reactions
to breaking social norms:
Staring

Plan
Intro
Hypothesis
Experiment
Demographics
Conclusion
Ethical Consideration

Hypothesis
Before doing our experiment we presumed that there would be less people laughing, and some subjects would probably show hostile behavior.

For our experiment we used Cafeteria, Living wall lounge, Pine Hall and Linden Hall, choosing people at random. Here is how it went.

28 subject took part in our experiment, 11 males and 17 females, aged 15-18

CONCLUSION
Our results were: most subjects would report feeling uncomfortable, nervous, tense, as if there was something wrong with them. There were a lot of people laughing, most of them nervously.

If it was someone we knew they would feel less uncomfortable than people who didn't. There were the small percentage of people who knew what we were doing. A different response came from people sitting in groups and alone, the lone subject would get anxious very fast, while a group would start asking questions and laughing. Triggering the bystander effect.

REACTIONS

WERE DIFFERENT