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Breaching Experiment: Riding The Elevator Backward
For the second breaching experiment I decided to do the “riding the elevator backwards” exercise. I completed three trials of this experiment. Each of the three trials were done on the UCSB campus during the afternoon. I also completed the exercise with a different number of people each time. The results that I got were interesting, in one of the trials the behavior went completely unnoticed and in others it stood out greatly. I also fond it interesting a behavior so small as standing one direction in the elevator has grown to be an expected social convention. Similarly to the first experiment, I also found it interesting how this behavior of facing one direction is taken for granted until somebody steps out of the norm. A few of things that

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