Not just because I was violating a norm but because I wasn't engaging with my best friend's emotions about something she was worried about. If I were to refuse to “mirror” the nonverbal display to strangers or people who aren't really close to me, I think I could have made a more extreme case with the study. However, I have realized that violating social norms can lead me to lose the people I am violating social norms with. Furthermore, I felt that the result of refusing to “mirror” the image could depend on the closeness of the relationship between the two. I think if the person who is ignored by their emotions is close to the person who refuses to be mirrored, that person is more likely to make an external attribution. On the other hand, if the ignored person is not close to the other person, that person is more likely to integrate