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Author Expectancy Violations Theory

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Buffoon

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Tradition Expectancy Violations Theory

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Socio-psychological

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Communication context Expectancy Violations Theory

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Intrapersonal interpersonal - investigate relationship

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Approach to knowing Expectancy Violations Theory

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Positivist/empirical

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Overall theory Expectancy Violations Theory

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Assumptions

  1. Expectancies drive human interactions – expectations for interactions
  2. Expectancies for human behavior are learned - from culture, media family
  3. People make predictions about nonverbal behavior
    - About distance, touch and posture.
    Attractiveness of another influences the evaluation of expectancies

when communicative Norms are violated , it can be perceived unfavorable or favorable, depending on the view the receiver have on the person who violate him/her

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Proxemics

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Study of persons use of space in conversations - can influence meaning

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Intimate, personal, social and public distance

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Intimate: persons most close(love)
Personal:family and friend
Social: for formal relations
Public: very formal

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Primary, secondary, and public territory

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Primary: mine exclusively
Secondary: personal connection but not exclusive (Au)
Public: no personal and open for all

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Expectancies: individual factors

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Gender personality appearance eg.

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Expectations: relational factors

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Relationship, status and liking

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Expectancies: context factors

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Formality, social functions and norms

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Arousal

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Occurs when person puts more attention to the violation than the message

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Threat threshold high/low

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When there is arousal, threats may occur(e.g. Distance)

High if you don’t care about the threat- e.g. close people stand or person staring

Low: very affected

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Violation valence

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Try to interpret the meaning of a violation and decide whether it is positive or negative

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Reward valence

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People can punish or reward when violated: nod, smile ignore

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Critics - scope

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Seem broad because nonverbal communication is, but the original work of personal space was clear unscope

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Utility (nytte)

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Has utility because it affect countless conversations

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Test ability

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May be problematic but clearly defined concepts

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Heurism

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Highly heuristic even though a lot of interactions have swift to online where nonverbal is not possible. ‘but then there is quickly arised some expectations about online behavior. e.g. Norm violations on Facebook may include too many status updates, overly emotional status updates or Wall posts, heated interactions, name calling through Facebook’s public features, and tags on posts or pictures that might reflect negatively on an individual. Unfriending. - Gives a better understanding of our need for both people and personal space

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Example use commercials:

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Commercials can often test the receivers limits and violate people in different ways - this can have a positive or negative outcome

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Aida model

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Attention interest desire action