Title

When Norms are Violated: Imagined Interactions as Processing and Coping Mechanisms.

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published by National Communication Association in Communication Monographs; Volume 68, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 289-300.
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Abstract

Presents a study which examined the receivers' symbolic cognitive process in response to particular types of norm violations. Definition of several violation theories; How imagined interactions affect the symbolic information processing of receivers; Analysis of the reliance of students on imagined or real interactions to norm violating teachers.

Berkos, Kristen M.; Allen, Terre H.; Kearney, Patricia; and Plax, Timothy G., "When Norms are Violated: Imagined Interactions as Processing and Coping Mechanisms." (2001). Communication Journal Articles. Paper 7.
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