The Silence In The Library Norm

Norm:

The norm being tested for this experiment is “The silence in the library norm”. This norm is a norm that is followed by everyone once they enter the library however some of the people really don’t follow the norm and the reason for that is just accidental. Something that is unique for this norm is that this silence norm is not actually a rule in some of the libraries however people still follow the norm. When people imagine a library they imagine a silent, and a place to have privacy on doing your work;office work, collage work, homework, or simply read. The results of this norm when tested would illustrate how many people in the library really follow the norm and are affected by the change in the norm, like silence changed with noise.

The first experiment was called “The silence of the library: environment, situational norm, and social behavior.” by Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A in 2003: This experiment had three sub experiments that followed the major purpose of following the silence norm. The first sub experiment was testing how a person would react when the environment was changed, for example from a silence environment to a noisy environment. The second sub experiment was testing the behavior of those individuals as the environment changed, and lastly the third sub experiment was testing the effects of the silence norm on the individuals. From their results they were able to conclude that most of the social behavior are not based on the norms, and some of the people visiting the library don't actually for the silence norm, and lastly that an individual's behavior changes according to the environment they are in. For example you would behave different if you were at the mall, or you being at home, as in the mall you would act nicer as they're people around you but at home you don't care, and you would do whatever you want, dress in whatever outfit you wish to dress in. The second experiment was called Silence and Table Manners: When Environments Activate Norms” by Janneke F. Joly, Diederik A. Stapel, Siegwart M. Lindenberg. This experiment also had sub experiments, but only two. The first experiment focused on the library environment, and what the people do in the library and the second sub experiment was ion table manners, as well as how people act around in a restaurant. The results were illustrated from the least important to the most important, and for the library section 23.5% of the people thought reading a book in the library was important, while 22.2% thought that eating in the library was important although you can not eat in the library according