Expectancy Violation Theory (Paper Rough Draft)

Elevator Group Think: In this experiment it shows how if everyone is standing one way in the elevator that is not the norm, the other person is going to be compelled to stand that way too because everyone else is doing it. This is relevant to making it difficult to enforce standards of ethics because if a lot of people are doing something unethically, other people are compelled to do the same thing, so they are not left out.

The acceptable distance for a conversation between adults is greatly affected by the cultural background of the participants

They are also other factor, which are very important in face to face communication they are proximity, orientation and posture. Proximity is all about distance between me and the person I am about to communicate. Everyone needs personal body space. That personal space it s change varies with age. Babies and young children like to be very close, but we have to remember everybody is different and some children who are shy or they don’t know us may not like if we stay to close. This is because anyone like being to close to people who don’t know. Some people may feel discomfort when we approach them to close, so it is good to keep distance

The purpose of this review of literature is to look at the current research of expectancy violations theory. The review covers twelve scholarly articles from 2005-2016. It includes research from the following fields: computer studies, neuroscience, behavioral sciences, men’s studies, and communication. All of these scholars study EVT in the context of interpersonal communication and they all reference Judee Burgoon, the creator of expectancy violations theory in their work (Burgoon et al., 2016; Chiles & Roloff, 2014; Dickter & Gyurovski, 2012; Frisby & Sidelinger, 2013; Houser, 2005; Johnson, 2012; Lannutti & Camero, 2007; McAuliff, Lapin, & Michel, 2015; Meltzer & McNulty, 2011; Miller-Ott & Kelly, 2015; Sidelinger & Bolen, 2015; Walther-Martin,

The first stages are contact where individuals exchange basic information and decide if the relationship is worth pursuing. In the movie the audience can see this stage when Gary starts conversation with Brooke in the game of baseball. He offers to Brooke a hot dog, but she does not accept it. Gary insists offering the bread and she does not interest in Gary. After the game, Gary invites her to a bar, but Brooke refuses one more time to him. Gary insists saying that maybe a conversation can change their lives, and then Brooke accepts the invitation. At this moment, the audience can appreciate the second stage of relationships: involvement. They will spend more time together allowing an intensification of the relationship, knowing, and learning of each other. The third stage is intimacy. It is when two people accept each other and confirm their roles. The interpersonal commitment is demonstrated in the movie when several Gary and Brooke’s pictures are played showing them kissing and holding their hands. In addition, they show their social bonding which is more in public when the Brooke’s family comes to eat at home. The principal characters show to others that they are a partner and the family can see that. The next stage

According to Dyer (2013), the most commonly violated expectations are communication, decision-making, and conflict resolution and processes. The communication is a method to deliver messages between member to member in which communicating is necessary to accomplish the task effectively and obtain desire goal. The expectation of communication is easily violated because the members could have used a delivery method that violates the expectation of the member. In the Department of Defense (DoD), personal information that includes social security number and any personal sensitive information must be transmitted via encrypted message when sending the information electronically in accordance with 32 CFR 806b.29 (U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2013, p. 45). All members of the DoD expect the personal information be transmitted via encrypted message; however, the violation mostly occurs unintentionally. Thus, the sender who sent the personal sensitive information via unencrypted email has violated the expectation of the receiver and the sender has violated

I’ve known Lucy for almost three years and we have been living together for over two years. Even before I conducted the experiment, I already had an expectancy on her reaction and I was not wrong. I expected Lucy to react with disappointment and as predicted she was let down with my paralanguage. According to Passalacqua (2016) violation valence is the “perceived positive or negative value assigned to a breach of expectation.” My violation valence was perceived negatively due to Lucy’s and I’s unspoken agreement to always be honest and respectful to one another. Communicator reward value is known as “the sum of the positive and negative attributes the person brings to the encounter” as well as “the power he or she has to reward or punish in the future” (Passalacqua, 2016). After, I revealed why I acted so rudely Lucy’s anger vanished and we happily went back to finishing the rest of our meal. She revealed, though that she wasn’t actually angry, she knows me so well that she knew I was lying. However, she did warn me that she would get her revenge. These three elements influenced Lucy’s reaction by making her even more angry since we are very honest with another. This experiment gave me a better understanding of our friendship and it revealed the high level of comfortably we have with one

It is often said that all good things come to an end. Relationships come and go, and some mean more than others. In fact, there was even a relationship model developed by a communication researcher by the name of Mark Knapp. In his model, he goes through what seems to be presented as a smooth step transition from each stage in which a relationship eventually evolves into. As I studied this up then down ladder model, I began to realize that I ought to build up some strong calf muscles, because my relationship sure has climbed up and down a few flights of stairs. Mark Knapp believes that relationships go through multiple stages, the uphill stages being initiation, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, then relational maintenance. On the flip side, Knapp believes the descending stages to be differentiating, circumscribing, avoiding, and eventually, termination.

not the greatest distance possible, it is significant none the less. Most couples who have similar

“Expectancy violations exert significance on people’s interaction patterns, on their impressions of one another, and on the outcomes of their interactions” (Burgoon 1993:40). In other words, Judee Burgoon, founder of the expectancy violation theory, concluded from various experiments that people evaluate communication with others in a negative or positive regard, based on their expectation of the interaction and their opinion of the communicator. When people do not act in accordance with ones expectations, one resorts to evaluating their communication behavior, be it verbal or non verbal as well as how this behavior makes one feel. The following essay will further explore and explain the

The second half of the relational model is called the “coming apart” stages, which consists of: differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and lastly terminating. During the differentiating stage the relationship will start to be more individual, it will start to fade and the bond will be broken. After that comes the circumscribing stage during which the individuals won’t communicate because of the fear of starting an argument. The stage where relationships never improve or continue is called stagnating. After this point the individuals enter the avoiding stage, where the avoid any physical contact

'Proximity' is shorthand for Lord Atkin's neighbour principle. It means that there must be legal proximity, i.e. a legal relationship between the parties from which the law will attribute a duty of care.

Communication in a relationship is a process, there are steps in the process in which the communication flows. Mark Knapp and Anita Vangelisti (2000), developed The model of interaction stages, which includes ten stages, five stages are coming together and five stages are coming part (Edwards et al., 2016, p.159). The purpose of the model is to show how relationships progress and deteriorate (communicationtheory.org). The stages happen in an order, however stages take different lengths of time from start to finish. In addition a stage can end and not progress to the next stage in order. Furthermore, a relationship can stay in a stage indefinitely (Edwards et al., 2016, p.159).

Theory explains why as relationships develop, communication moves from less intimate levels to more intimate, more personal levels.

Everyone goes through situations in which they form new relationships with people they previously did not know. For example, when a student moves onto a college campus for his or her freshman year, the student will have to go through the process of making new friends and getting to know his or her roommate. The social penetration theory of communication explains how new relationships form and the levels a relationship must go through before it can be described as being friends.