Compare and Contrast Attribution Theory with Expectancy Violations Theory

question 84

Essay

Compare and contrast attribution theory with expectancy violations theory. In your well-written essay, be sure to address each of the following:
a. Who is primarily responsible for developing each theory?
b. How, if at all, are these two theories similar? How are they distinct?
c. How do both theories incorporate perception into their explanations for human interaction?
d. How psychological and how communicative are both theories? Is one theory more communicative than the other? If so, why? If not, why not?

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Definitions:

Credit

The provision of goods, services, or money with the expectation of future payment, or an entry in accounting that increases liabilities and decreases assets.

Transactions

Financial events that involve the transfer of value between two parties, recording in accounting records.

Source Document

An original record or document that contains the details of a business transaction, used as the basis for recording and validating financial data.

Trial Balance

A bookkeeping worksheet in which the balances of all ledgers are compiled into debit and credit columns to ensure that a company's bookkeeping system is mathematically correct.