Exercise 1 (Assignment 1)

For this experiment, I decided to go to public places and pretend to cry.  This created a stirring of reactions from people.  Some stared in concern and other walked past just trying to ignore me.  I attempted to take a video recording of it but I couldn’t capture it well, so I will do my best to describe my experience.

One example was going into a Starbucks and started to cry.  Just small tears at first but eventually escalated to covering my face and trying to not loudly sob.  Most people just looked at me, probably wondering why I was sitting crying in public.  Others would casually look the other direction.  A few people asked if I was okay, which I responded saying I was fine and not to worry about it, and we both moved on with our day.

The next place I went was a bathroom.  I started by looking in the mirror and wiping tears off my face.  I did this for a little while.  No one really approached me.  In this setting, most people did ask me if I was okay and I responded with the same thing that I was fine.  Though instead of just moving on, in the bathroom setting more people showed a lot more sympathy toward me, asking follow up questions to make sure I was really okay.  It was a pretty different experience overall.

The next one I did was not a place but I walked around campus crying to myself.  I was crying obviously enough to bring attention to myself.  Pretty much everyone looked away.  There was maybe one person (who is a friend of mine) who stopped me to ask if I was okay.  While walking outside most people are walking because they have some place to be, and because it is cold no one is really looking to stop and have a little chat with a stranger they don’t know.  It was a very different experience than the other two places I went to.

All in all this experiment for me was enlightening for me because it showed that social interactions with strangers is challenging when just approaching someone, but throwing a curve ball at them is just as challenging if not more.  It also made me more aware of my surroundings by bringing to light the struggles in social interactions that people have every day, not just during a breach.  It definitely showed that people breach social rules every day without even knowing it.

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