Valspeak

1. Relationships are changing faster each year with increasing amounts of social media use. It becomes difficult to test the psychology of relationships. There is no certain formula that can get someone to like them. However, there are tips and tricks that can be used to increase one’s chances. Witchurch’s study tries to test one of those tips that can help someone into a relationship. The basic question addressed is whether the participants are more likely to like the person who showed more interest on them or the person who showed less interest on them or the person who shows average interest in them. Witchurch is testing if the amount of times someone thinks about a certain person affect whether they like them more or less. Does having someone not show much interest cause the other person to think about them more or less, which then leads to them liking the person more or less. 2. The hypothesis of the study is that the participants will be attracted more to the uncertainty man, because it causes them to think more about them. Knowing someone is uncertain causes people to think more about them which those thoughts later can be changed to make the participants think they like the person. When people are not sure of what the outcome might be, causes them to think about the potential outcomes. It is an exception of the reciprocity principle, which states that in social situations we pay back what one receives from others. In this case the researcher thinks that they will…

sociolects such as “Valspeak” and “Surfer Dude”, which originated from the way Southern Californian teenagers speak and spread thorough movies and television. More recently, millennial lingos, which are words spoken by generations born from the early 1980`s to late 1990`s, have been influencing many teenagers in America. 2.1.1Valspeak One of the most influential sociolects spoken by teenagers in America is “Valspeak”, otherwise known as “Valley Girl” or “Valleyspeak”. Valspeak was originally…