I began the breaking of my social norm at my locker. I decided to walk from my locker to my science class backwards and I had my friend (Rory) watch people’s reactions since I was no longer facing forward. I walked down two long hallways before reaching the door and walking past …show more content…
I was also hoping that I wouldn't trip because, like I said before, everyone was watching me. I got that chilling feeling that you get when you can just feel eyes on you. As I was walking backwards some people would turn around once they past me so we could see each others faces and just kind of stare at me like what are you doing. Sometimes I could feel people's eyes on me and when they past me,they just kept walking and didn't react at all. My witness said that everyone we passed had their eyes on me. Which I think is normal because we are all used to seeing people walk the normal way so to see someone doing something out of place makes them question it. It hard to think of a situation where someone has to walk backwards. So in this case I don't there is something to attribute if you were to see someone walking backwards like I did. One was I can think of how the fundamental attribution error could occur in this situation is if someone was hurt and it physically hurt them to walk forward but not back. This is a pretty extreme situation so that is why I don't think the f.a.e. doesn't apply