Research Proposal

Title: Receivers' Undesirable Reactions to Gifts and Its Effects to the Givers

Significance

1. The act of giving gifts has been practiced throughout the years. There are times when receivers would have undesirable remarks to the gifts they received. This study would help gift givers prepare and understand such occurrence -so as not to feel great disappointment.
2. Receivers of gifts are free to feel anything they want about a gift they have received. There may be an event where in his remark would not be pleasant to the eyes and/or ears of the one who gave it. Information gathered from this research would be beneficial in providing Receivers options on how to react properly, despite the harshness his comments he has though of.
3. The study will also be substantial in providing tips on how to prevent undesirable remarks from the presents a person gives.

Background

There have been occasions when people would give gifts which are not entirely pleasing to the receivers eyes. Other gifts may not be displeasing, but a few undesirable comments( e.g. "I already have a similar t-shirt") may also not sound well to the gift-giver. The researchers have observed

Conceptual Framework

The act Gift-giving dates back in early societies(JackandFriends.com). This from of social interaction is to signify the importance of someone, "to receive specials favors or even, impress"(give-presents-find-gifts.co.uk).

Giving gifts functions to establish, define, repair, maintain, or enhance interpersonal relationships(The shadow side of social gift-giving: miscommunication and failed gifts.)

These means that this social interaction can contribute to a persons non-verbal communication.Although the thought of "Trojan Horse" gifts may linger in the minds of many, that is less likely to happen.

A Gift-giver may have the best intention in giving a gift, but there are occasions where a given gift may garner undesirable remarks from the person he gave it to. This is true and has also been found in a research reported on CBC news("Researchers Explain the Science Behind Bad Gift Giving").

The displeased or undesired remarks may be kept secret from the giver, but what if certain slips of the tongue occur? Or the person overhears such bad remark?

Objectives

1. This research aims to attain the following:
2. Discover the four most-heard and used undesirable remarks of receivers to gifts.
3. Gather the four most-experienced effects of above mentioned phenomenon to the gift-givers.
4. Understand this communication conflict
5. Derive concepts and rules from this kind of social interaction.

Methodology Information for this study shall be acquired through Descriptive Research in UP Mindanao. The following actions to provide such data will be done by means of:

1. Surveys. These shall be conducted in UP Mindanao, while considering the age range of 15 to 20.
2. Interviews. Interviews shall be gathered from people who have firs-hand experience on such phenomenon.
3. Research. Further research( through Internet and Literary/ Published sources) shall be done to provide more information.

Bibliography

• Jackandfriends.com.http://www.jackandfriends.com/store/customer/pages.php?pageid=31."THE HISTORY OF GIFT GIVING". Paul Harris.

• give-presents-find-gifts.co.uk. http://www.give-presents-find-gifts.co.uk/gifts.html. "History of Gift Giving"

• CBC NEWS.http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2006/12/06/consumer-gifts.html."Researchers explain the science behind bad gift giving".

• High Beam Encyclopedia. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-152739424.html."The shadow side of social gift-giving: miscommunication and failed gifts."Sunwolf, J.D.