"Difficult to see. Always in motion, is the future"— Yoda This quote, by Master Yoda, exhibits the futility of man 's desire to plan his own destiny, no matter how problematic this concept is. Humankind is a tomorrow-centered species, and seek to know what is coming next. Expectancy Violation Theory plays right into the need to predict what each communication event holds in store. It states that one has preconceived notions of how social interactions should go and when someone violates those predictions one must evaluate how that makes them feel. The reaction that occurs gets assigned a violation valence, whether the encounter was positive or negative, and it is often dependent on the reward value, or what one might lose or gain in each interaction.
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Burgoon used this base to attempt to predict what will happen when major deviations from what is expected occur. Her hypothesis was …show more content…
However, one does need to take into consideration that to test the theory, they did need to make large enough violations that they aroused the participant but still small enough for it not to be blatant. It might not be best to judge it by this fault. Also, when large leaps in immediacy occur then often the receiver is distracted by the action and what exactly it means for the relationship than how it makes them automatically feel, as supported by Burgoon’s earlier research (Stacks & Burgoon, 1980). Another problem that this theory runs into is the fact that it does not consider reciprocity. However, Burgoon more recently has proposed the Interpersonal Adaptation Theory that fixed some of those areas, including the lack of reciprocity. It includes one’s own perceptions, responses, and actions to a given stimuli and not just the violation itself. (Griffin, 2009,
Burgoon used this base to attempt to predict what will happen when major deviations from what is expected occur. Her hypothesis was …show more content…
However, one does need to take into consideration that to test the theory, they did need to make large enough violations that they aroused the participant but still small enough for it not to be blatant. It might not be best to judge it by this fault. Also, when large leaps in immediacy occur then often the receiver is distracted by the action and what exactly it means for the relationship than how it makes them automatically feel, as supported by Burgoon’s earlier research (Stacks & Burgoon, 1980). Another problem that this theory runs into is the fact that it does not consider reciprocity. However, Burgoon more recently has proposed the Interpersonal Adaptation Theory that fixed some of those areas, including the lack of reciprocity. It includes one’s own perceptions, responses, and actions to a given stimuli and not just the violation itself. (Griffin, 2009,