Judee Burgoon’s, Expectancy Violations Theory also known as EVT, explains how individuals react to unexpected violations of social norms either in a positive or negative way. Scientific theories usually predict and explain how something is going to work and we usually never try to tweak proven scientific theories because they are great proven hypothesis. In the beginning of Burgoon’s research, her theory focused on how preferred personal space for an individual is created and confronted. These personal preferences depended on cultural norms (Griffin, 2015). The study of proxemics and personal space has been studied since 1960 when anthropologist Edward Hall established the term proxemics to refer to the study of people’s use of space amongst
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The idea of expectancy resulted into what people will predict will happen rather than what they know will happen (Griffin, 2015). It is put into context within cultural norms, relationship factors, as well as personal characteristics. Violation valence is the interpretation of interaction being either positive or negative without regards of who is violating who (Griffin, 2015). We first try to recognize violation, and then figure out whether we like it. Communicator Reward Valence is the result of either positive or negative aspects for the violator collecting a reward or punishment (Griffin, 2015). This theory allowed me to conduct an experiment and share my predictions using and applying EVT to my interaction in the real …show more content…
This interaction began as she got home from school on a Wednesday in our room. It seemed like Saffron and I had a free Thursday which allowed us to lounge and spend time with each other that Wednesday afternoon. The experiment I had on planning to do was to simply hug Saffron as she got home from school and hang around her side of the room that day. If this was any other regular day, my normative behavior would be in my bed either asleep or on my computer and obnoxiously saying “hello” as she walked into our room exhausted as she always is after class. My expectation of Saffron would be of her to obnoxiously greet me back and there would end our conversation for the next 15 minutes. This is where I would violate her personal space resulting a positive or negative reward. Saffron and I play as if we were brothers and would play fight. Being in any physical contact with Saffron might be resulting into a wrestling match, so I would not know how she would react if she had gotten a sweet interaction from me as soon as she arrived home from
The idea of expectancy resulted into what people will predict will happen rather than what they know will happen (Griffin, 2015). It is put into context within cultural norms, relationship factors, as well as personal characteristics. Violation valence is the interpretation of interaction being either positive or negative without regards of who is violating who (Griffin, 2015). We first try to recognize violation, and then figure out whether we like it. Communicator Reward Valence is the result of either positive or negative aspects for the violator collecting a reward or punishment (Griffin, 2015). This theory allowed me to conduct an experiment and share my predictions using and applying EVT to my interaction in the real …show more content…
This interaction began as she got home from school on a Wednesday in our room. It seemed like Saffron and I had a free Thursday which allowed us to lounge and spend time with each other that Wednesday afternoon. The experiment I had on planning to do was to simply hug Saffron as she got home from school and hang around her side of the room that day. If this was any other regular day, my normative behavior would be in my bed either asleep or on my computer and obnoxiously saying “hello” as she walked into our room exhausted as she always is after class. My expectation of Saffron would be of her to obnoxiously greet me back and there would end our conversation for the next 15 minutes. This is where I would violate her personal space resulting a positive or negative reward. Saffron and I play as if we were brothers and would play fight. Being in any physical contact with Saffron might be resulting into a wrestling match, so I would not know how she would react if she had gotten a sweet interaction from me as soon as she arrived home from