PSY2012 - General Psychology Seminole Community College Breaking Social Norms. For this project our group was required to conduct a social psychology experiment as a group and write a paper individually. The social psychology experiment will be on violating social norms. The purpose of this project was to give us an idea of how much our society relies on conformity and norms, and to understand how research conducted. The following is a list of research topics from which we ere to choose. Ø Stand in an elevator backwards. Ø Bargain for the cost of an item at inappropriate places. Ø Give excessive positive feedback to people. Ø Wear a tin-foil hat in public. Ø Invade the personal space of friends and family. For most of these experiments, you will need one group member to act as a confederate (a person who knows about the experiment, but act as part of the crowd), observing the reactions of other people. The confederate should use a data sheet to record the responses (see the example below). Be sure to record a lack of response as well, those results tell you just as much information as reactions. The way one person responds does not give a clear enough indication of how the population would respond. You must make a comparison between 2 groups of people and have at least 15 people in each group. DO NOT DO THESE EXPERIMENTS AT A POLICE STATION, AIRPORT, HOSPITAL, FIRE STATION, OR ANY OTHER EMERGENCY / HIGH SECURITY LOCATION. DO NOT GO SO FAR AS TO GET ARRESTED, GET IN ANY ...

• published: 31 Mar 2009
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• author: Levon Clark III