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Communication Theories: Expectancy Violations Theory

Resources for Communication Theories projects.

Expectancy Violations Theory

Expectancy Violations of Instructor Communication as Predictors of Motivation and Learning: A Comparison of Traditional and Nontraditional Students.
When I'm within my rights: An expectancy-based model of actor evaluative and behavioral responses to compliance-resistance strategies
Clothing and Teacher Credibility: An Application of Expectancy Violations Theory
Fishy-looking liars: Deception judgment from expectancy violation.
Threatened by the unexpected: Physiological responses during social interactions with expectancy-violating partners.
Contrast Effects of Stereotypes: ”Nurturing“ Male Professors Are Evaluated More Positively than ”Nurturing“ Female Professors
You’re Not What I Expected: Expectancy Violations and Performance Rating
Trustworthy Tricksters: Violating a Negative Social Expectation Affects Source Memory and Person Perception When Fear of Exploitation Is High
Emotion and Political Judgment
Cognitive Load Does Not Affect the Behavioral and Cognitive Foundations of Social Cooperation
The feedback related negativity encodes both social rejection and explicit social expectancy violation
Expectancy Violation and Student Rating of Instruction
Memory for expectation-violating concepts: the effects of agents and cultural familiarity
On the Maintenance of Expectations in Major Depression - Investigating a Neglected Phenomenon.(Report)
An fMRI investigation of expectation violation in magic tricks
You are not as Cute as you Think you are: Emotional Responses to Expectancy Violations in Heterosexual Online Dating Interactions
Adult Student Expectations and Experiences in an Online Learning Environment