Editing Breaching experiment (section)

== Other examples ==
Social science researcher [[Earl R. Babbie]] instructed his students to experiment fixing problems for which they had no prior responsibility, such as picking up garbage from the street or mending street signs. Their self-consciousness while doing this, and the negative reactions they encountered, showed that "in the normal course of things, it is simply not acceptable for people to take responsibility for public things".<ref name="Babbie2015">{{cite book|author=Earl R. Babbie|author-link=Earl R. Babbie|title=The Practice of Social Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bS9BBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA290|edition=14th|year=2015|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-305-44556-7|page=290}}</ref> Babbie claims that people have negative reactions when they see somebody fixing something that is not his/her "job" to fix; in some cases, [[Altruism|altruistic]] actions are viewed as personal intrusions. However, he noted that these negative reactions were often based on incorrect assumptions, and when those assumptions were corrected the bystanders stopped reacting negatively. For instance, when a student picked up trash bystanders assumed that the student was responsible for the mess and either felt guilty or was being forced to clean it up. When the truth was explained, bystanders often joined in and assisted the students.