Blog Post #1
1) I disagree with this statement, a violation can definetly be positive. For example, Professor McGowan sharing with us that she went to Mardi Gras a few years ago and also went out with her students for some drinks is a positive violation. It's unexpected but makes us know more about our professor.
2) The violation valence describes how non-verbal messages violate our expectancies and then are interpreted. The communicator reward valence is an evaluation one makes about someone who committed a violation of expectancy. The one that's more important is the communicator reward valence, because non-verbal messages can sometimes be misinterpreted or be not as important as making judgments on someone overall in just any way they surprise you.
3) Reciprocity means disclosing information to someone else as they disclose information to you. For example, if your teacher shares something about her personal life that is a positive violation, it will encourage you to maybe share something personal about your life. Bit by bit, as is told in Social Penetration Theory, you slowly introduce yourself and get to know someone by exchanging information this way,
4) It is usually appropriate to violate expectations when it's in a casual setting. For example, bonding with your teacher in the classroom over shared memories of nights out in Buffalo might not be appropriate in a classroom, but if you're at a conference with several of your professors and are out at dinner, you might be able to share information like that easier.
Hi Justin, I completely agree with your answer to number 1. I also thought of different examples from class involving Dr. McGowan and it really just went on to show how positive some of these violation expectancies can be. I think you would have to be living in quite a dark world for every violation to be negative. Your answer for number 2 is also very good and reminds me of my own response. I also thought that communicator reward valence was more important because similar to you I find nonverbal communication to be less important overall compared to an award. They are not as important and can cloud judgments sometimes. This poses a question for me because I had direct examples from my life, but what kind of experiences did you have across valence that maybe influenced your thought process in this question? Was it more so just you picking the more important out of the two without much regard to personal experience? For 3 you said that a teacher sharing something personal about their life is a positive violation. This poses another question which is cant this be a negative experience as well. Can you think of an instance where maybe a teacher sharing something about their personal life can be a negative violation? I love your answer for the last question because I also felt along the same way. Casual settings are better in terms of general violations of expectations, at least for me personally. So I will leave you off on a question. When do you think it is not ok to violate those expectations? Would your answer be in professional settings? Or does your thought process tend to drift elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
Delete