Examples
- "The inexplicable do-gooder": Social science researcher Earl R. Babbie writes that "it is a social rule that ordinary citizens should not pick up garbage from the street, or mend street signs, or otherwise fix problems." Babbie claims that people have negative reactions when they see somebody fixing something that is not his/her "job" to fix; in some cases, altruistic actions are viewed as personal intrusions.
- A game of tic-tac-toe where the experimenter asks the subject to make the first move, then erases that mark and move it to another square before making the responding move.
- Standing very, very close to a person while otherwise maintaining an innocuous conversation… saying ‘hello’ at the termination of a conversation.
- In a now classic experiment, Garfinkel instructed a class of students to return to their parental homes and to act as lodgers. To the parents, the behavior of their children was bizarre and disturbing, as the taken for granted (and unnoticed) conventions of how children behave in their home (and thus how parents behave to their children) were unraveled.
Read more about this topic: Breaching Experiment
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“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
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