Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity
Empirical Musicology Review, 2016 The present study assesses two types of models for melodic complexity: one based on expectancy violations and the other one related to an information-theoretic account of redundancy in music.
Tuomas Eerola
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Object permanence in domestic cats (Felis catus) using violation-of-expectancy by owner and stranger [PDF]
PLoS ONEObject permanence, the understanding that objects continue to exist while out of sight, is a key part of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.
Jemma Forman +2 more
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Expectancy Violation and COVID-19 Misinformation: A Comment on Bogomoletc and Lee's “Frozen Meat Against COVID-19 Misinformation: An Analysis of Steak-umm and Positive Expectancy Violations” [PDF]
Journal of business and technical communication, 2021 The social media account for Steak-umm, a frozen food product, achieved notoriety in 2020 for its messages about how to evaluate the quality of information.
Jon Agley
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Expectation violation reduces the accessibility of implicit suicidal concepts and explicit life concepts [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionTerror Management Theory posits that threats to cultural worldviews increase death concept accessibility. Suicide and death concepts are related and jointly represent the fear of life.
Bo Liu +5 more
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Pleasant and unpleasant violations of expectancies [PDF]
Psychonomic Science, 1970 Two experiments varied importance, confirmation, and solution to test whether or not disconfirmation of expectancies is unpleasant. In Experiment 1, two pleasant solutions were tasted. For one solution, disconfirmation was unpleasant in the importance condition, pleasant in the unimportance condition.
Patricia L. Shapiro, Jerome E. Singer
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Meowing dogs: can dogs recognize cats in a cross-modal violation of expectancy task (Canis familiaris)? [PDF]
Animal Cognition, 2023 Dogs can recognize conspecifics in cross-modal audio–video presentations. In this paper, we aimed at exploring if such capability extends to the recognition of cats, and whether it is influenced by exposure to these animals. To reach our aim, we enrolled
Miina Lõoke +4 more
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Do they see it coming? Using expectancy violation to gauge the success of pedagogical reforms [PDF]
Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research, 2010 We present a measure, which we have named the Pedagogical Expectancy Violation Assessment (PEVA), for instructors to gauge one aspect of the success of their implementation of pedagogical reform by assessing the expectations and experiences of the ...
Jon D. H. Gaffney +2 more
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Nascent social ventures’ inaugural CEO appointment: human capital and gender expectancy violation perspectives [PDF]
New England Journal of EntrepreneurshipPurposeThis study investigates the process of selecting the inaugural chief executive officer (CEO) in nascent social ventures, emphasizing the unique qualities required due to these ventures’ dual social and economic objectives.Design/methodology ...
Nahyun Oh
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How Voicer Humility Influences Managerial Voice Endorsement: An Expectancy Violation Perspective [PDF]
British Journal of Management, 2023 Jinyun Duan +3 more
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The expectancy bias: Expectancy-violating faces evoke earlier pupillary dilation than neutral or negative faces [PDF]
, 2017 Humans maintain a negativity bias, whereby they perceive threatening stimuli to be more salient than rewarding or neutral stimuli. Across 6 within-subject experimental comparisons, we tested the hypothesis that humans maintain an even stronger expectancy
Travis Proulx +2 more
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