So i started to feel myself gravitating towards the seat i took last week. Rishi wanted to sit in a seperate side of the classroom, but for some reason i felt really uncomfortable about displacing someone else, so decided to move back to where we were last week.
So the theory now stands like this:
- Initally, given a choice of seats, people will choose the seat they prefer, i.e. far from teacher, near to teacher, next to window, in a corner, etc.
- Following the first session of class (or meetings or whatever) people's preferences will mature further with more info (the teacher is a slob and spits when he talks, i'm sitting further away. The woman next to me is super antisocial and apathetic, i should find a more interesting person etc.) and their desired choice of seats will change. Thus there will be a difference between the utility they gain from staying in their current seat, and moving to their most desired seat, especially if their choice was restricted in the first place.
- The perceived costs would be that of displacing the person originally in the seat (which is privately assumed to be their desired seat), which is probably mostly fears of repercussion of some sort and generally creating a negative impression on a potential friend/ally/etc....
- So depending on the costs and benefits.......
of course after time passes and people get more used to their seats the cost of unseating people rises..... and you get used to your seat....
my sister just disproved all that theory by saying "why do you care where people sit? I just sit the first place where it's empty."
oh well.
oh and in other news there was yu sheng at my house last night.
My mum rocks. =)
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone =)
even the cousins and nieces of mine who chose to wear pink. ^^
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