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Humor by Violating an Existing Expectancy

The Journal of Psychology, 1981
Summary The present experiment evoked humor by violating an existing expectancy compared to an experimental expectancy. The existing expectancy referred to the heaviness of textbooks stemming from students' experience. The experimental expectancy was defined by having students lift five textbooks individually while rating the covers.
Lambert Deckers, John Devine
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Probing the effect of the expected-speed violation illusion

Psychological Research, 2020
Motion perception is complex for the brain to process, involving interacting computations of distance, time, and speed. These computations can be biased by the context and the features of the perceived moving object, giving rise to several types of motion illusions.
Luca Battaglini, Giovanna Mioni, Clara Casco, Giulio Contemori, Mahiko Konishi   +4 more
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Interpersonal Expectations, Expectancy Violations, and Emotional Communication

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1993
In this article, key concepts and propositions of expectancy violations theory are explicated and then applied to emotional communication. It is proposed that emotional experience and expression can profitably be understood according to what experiences and expressions are expected in interpersonal relationships, the extent to which enacted expressions
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Perceptions of Moral-Expectancy Violation: The Role of Expectancy Source

Social Cognition, 1984
Subjects anticipated playing a bargaining game with a target person (male) who was described either by himself or by a friend (“claim” vs. “reputation” expectancy source) as invariably honest or as likely to dissemble. Subjects then watched a videotape of the target person in a previous bargaining game as he either did or did not misrepresent himself ...
Edward E. Jones, Judith Schwartz, Daniel T. Gilbert   +2 more
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Evaluating violations of expectations to find exceptional information

Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2005
Much useful new information (e.g. information in news reports) is often that which is surprising or unexpected. In other words, we harbour many expectations about the world, and when any of these expectations are violated (i.e. made inconsistent) by new information, we have a strong indicator that the information is interesting for us.
Emma Byrne, Anthony Hunter
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An ERP Study of Expectancy Violation in Face Perception

Brain and Cognition, 1994
Expectancies about face-structure can be induced by viewing parts of faces, which generates constraints due to two types of knowledge: feature-content and configuration. In a first experiment ERPs were recorded when parts of familiar faces were completed with incongruent features (from another face), as opposed to congruent features (from the same face)
M A, Bobes, M, Valdés-Sosa, E, Olivares
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Violation of expectation: Neural correlates reflect bases of prediction

RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren, 2008
Abstract Setting perceptual expectations can be based on different sources of information that determine which functional networks will be involved in implementing preparatory top–down influences and dealing with situations in which expectations are violated.
Andreja Bubic, D. Yves von Cramon, Thomas Jacobsen, Erich Schröger, Ricarda I. Schubotz   +4 more
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Creativity, perversion and the violations of expectations

International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2005
Abstract Violations of expectations provide a motive for both creativity and perversion. The term “violations of expectations,” derived from empirical studies of early development, includes surprise, shock, betrayals of trust, as well as the possession of extraordinary talents.
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The Role of Markets in Reducing Expected Utility Violations

Journal of Political Economy, 1997
Market theorists assume that expected utility predicts preferences at the market level even as evidence mounts that it predicts poorly at the individual level. The arguments for better‐performing markets are grounded in the assumption that individuals respond to the competition of the market.
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The effect of CSR expectancy violation: value from expectancy violation theory and confirmation bias

Journal of Marketing Communications, 2021
Sun－Young Park, Moonhee Cho, Soojin Kim   +2 more
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