Sentence examples for violation of expectations from inspiring English sources

If our hypothesis holds, we would expect horses to respond to this same vocal order given by this same person by obeying whatever this person's position and attentional state (facing and looking at the horse, distracted, eyes closed or back turned), while they would be surprised by a novel person giving the same order (violation of expectations) and would be unsure of this person's expectancies.

"There is this onslaught, what I call the violation of expectations, the minute they arrive," said Richard S. Sternberg, the principal at Honiss.

Benign Violation explained why the unexpected sight of a friend falling down the stairs (a violation of expectations) was funny only if the friend was not seriously injured (a benign outcome).

As everyday life seems to suggest, it is not the case that every form of injustice or violation of expectations brought on by a sudden setback produces support for collective action.

The attempt to explain group-based political rebellion solely (or even primarily) on the basis of an aggregation of individual-level processes, such as violation of expectations, has been tried and found wanting.

Although the audience for dumb comedy may be predominantly youthful, the most memorable -- the funniest -- works in the genre, from the silent era on, have revolved around the antics of (nominal) grown-ups, because humor is based on surprise, on the violation of expectations.

First, they provide the first demonstration of perseverative responding in a violation-of-expectation task.

In the present research, 6.5-month-old infants perseverated in a violation-of-expectation task designed to examine their reasoning about width information in containment events.

Using a violation-of-expectation paradigm, we habituated infants to a "joint attention" video and then compared their looking time durations between "divergent attention" videos and "joint attention" ones using a 2 (familiar or novel perceptual component) × 2 (familiar or novel conceptual component) factorial design.

This method, called violation of expectation, involves showing babies photos, videos or events that proceed as expected, followed by others that break everyday rules.

We found an enhanced sensory response for unexpected stimuli, which was elicited only when there was a violation of expectation at the specific location where participants formed a stimulus expectation.