The Goal of a Breaching Experiment Is to

question 18

Multiple Choice

The goal of a breaching experiment is to

• A) change social norms by breaking well-known social rules.
• B) adhere to social rules in order to better understand social change.
• C) adhere to formal rules in order to test informal boundaries.
• D) break social rules in order to better understand social routines.

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