1. What proxemic advice would you give to communicators who believe they are
seen as unrewarding?
2. EVT suggests that violation valence is especially important when it’s clearly
positive or negative. What verbal or nonverbal expectancy violations would be
confusing to you even when experienced in context?
3. Using the concepts of expectancy, violation valence, and communicator reward
valence, can you explain how the final version of EVT accurately predicts
Em’s response to the four requests made by Andre, Belinda, Charlie, and
Dawn?
4. EVT and coordinated management of meaning (see Chapter 6) hold divergent
views about ways of knowing, human nature, and communication research. Can
you spot the different assumptions?
