Violations Theory: The Theory Of The Expectancy Violation Theory

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The term Expectancy is defined as the hope or the person has about something. Expectancy Violation Theory is a theory that explains that how people communicate with other people and how their actions or reactions might violate another person 's thinking or behavior. Behavior to the violation depends upon the culture that they grew up in. Proxemics is the study of space that every person needs to make himself comfortable with others or it is the space that a person gives to another person in their life. They are four categories of Proxemics the first one is the intimate distance that is 0-18 inches this is a very close friend or family member that are really close. The second personal space that is 18 inches-4 feet. The third one is the social …show more content…
In one of the interviews that were conducted of Judee, she told the reason was that she was given the study of proxemics and while working on it. She figured out this theory in another question which I asked her myself she told me that it was done to reconcile conflicting predictions about the effects of very close personal space. What it mean is that how might a person react to a violation in there Expectancy about any person or a …show more content…
It all began when the institute that I go to nova is highly diverse it have a lot of minorities so they organized a Bengali event now I wasn 't exactly excited to be there but then the girl that I really liked her name was Hajra. She invited me to it and it was Hajra so I said yeah. I had work that Friday night and I had to my a replacement for it. Then I told my brother who was visiting me from Pakistan he said okay I 'll see why are you so crazy about her. As I was getting my best game on the road to impress her I got a text message from Hajra and she said don 't come well naturally I asked why she said because her mother was there and I would act strange or stupid in front of her mother. Well, I get that I am a sarcastic person but come on I can make a good first impression on people. As I was angry and I was going to tell my brother about it . She called and she said that come over we are all waiting for you well I was glad to hear it. I took my brother and left to see the love of my life Hajra. I had planned to say things to her mom was Hi Mrs.Aftab or auntie holding some followers saying it’s for you I always wanted to meet you and tell you that you raised Danish brother religiously and I wish I was like him he 's the best (just in case you wondered who Danish is he is Hajar 's brother.). My brother was sitting next to me said dude don 't buy flowers it would only look awkward.

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