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This document discusses several articles related to uncertainty reduction theory and how uncertainty impacts relationships. The articles examine how uncertainty affects communication satisfaction, relationship maintenance behaviors, and desires for future interaction. The document also explores how uncertainty can be reduced through online dating profiles and first date interactions.

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Uncertainty Reduction Theory

This document discusses several articles related to uncertainty reduction theory and how uncertainty impacts relationships. The articles examine how uncertainty affects communication satisfaction, relationship maintenance behaviors, and desires for future interaction. The document also explores how uncertainty can be reduced through online dating profiles and first date interactions.

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“Ibarra, P. R. (2009). Problematic sociality: Uncertainty and the study of social
problems. The American Sociologist, 40, 79-88."
This article talks about the idea of uncertainty in investigating social issues. The author
contends that social issues are frequently portrayed by uncertainty, which can appear in changed
structures' intricacy and unusualness. The article likewise investigates what uncertainty means
for the manners by which social issues are examined. The author recommends that specialists
embrace uncertainty and vulnerability and use it as a beginning stage for request instead of
attempting to dispense with it or decrease it to a sensible level. The article gives a basic
viewpoint on the limits of customary ways to deal with concentrating on friendly issues and
features the requirement for more reflexive methodologies.
"Downs, K. J. (2004). Family commitment, role perceptions, social support, and mutual
children in remarriage: A test of uncertainty reduction theory. Journal of Divorce &
Remarriage, 40(1-2), 35-53."
This article reviews the relevance of uncertainty reduction theory (URT) to remarried
couples with shared youngsters. The review investigates how family responsibility, job
discernments, and social help impact vulnerability decrease in such couples. The author contends
that remarriage with shared children is a setting portrayed by high vulnerability and that URT
can give a helpful structure to understanding how couples adapt to this uncertainty. The
investigation discovers that family responsibility and social help are critical indicators of
uncertainty decrease, while job discernments make a more restricted difference. The article adds
to the writing on URT by demonstrating how the theory can be applied to a particular setting and
by featuring the significance of social help in adapting to vulnerability in remarriage.
Sharabi, L. L. (2021). Online dating profiles, first-date interactions, and the enhancement
of communication satisfaction and desires for future interaction. Communication
Monographs, 88(2), 131-153.
The article by Sharabi (2021) examines how online dating profiles and first-date
associations can improve correspondence and communication satisfaction and the desire for
future cooperation. The author contends that online dating profiles are essential for
communication before the first date. How people depict themselves through online dating
profiles can impact their possible accomplice's discernments and assumptions for the primary
date. The review recommends that self-disclosure in online dating profiles is connected with
communication satisfaction and desire for future communication. It recommends that people who
participate with undivided attention and show interest in their accomplice's considerations have a
higher probability of improving correspondence fulfillment and cravings for future cooperation.
This shows how people convey during their first interaction can affect the relationship's
prosperity.
Karlsen, A. S., Futris, T. G., & Richardson, E. W. (2020). The dyadic effects of relationship
uncertainty on relationship maintenance and damaging behaviors. Journal of
Couple & Relationship Therapy, 19(4), 347-367.
The article by Karlsen et al. (2020) investigates the effect of relationship uncertainty on
the elements of heartfelt connections. The authors observed that more elevated levels of
relationship uncertainty were related to lower levels of relationship support ways of behaving
and more significant levels of harming ways of behaving towards the accomplice. Besides, the
investigation discovered that the impacts of relationship uncertainty on harming ways of
behaving were more grounded for people who announced more elevated levels of attachment
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anxiety, recommending that people who are more restless about connection might be bound to
participate in pessimistic ways of behaving while having an unsure outlook on their relationship.
The article also found that the impacts of relationship uncertainty on relationship support ways of
behaving were more grounded for people who detailed more significant levels of connection
evasion, proposing that people who are more avoidant in connection might battle with keeping a
relationship while having a questionable outlook on it. The authors feature the significance of
addressing relationship uncertainty to advance solid and economical connections.
Neuliep, J. W., & Grohskopf, E. L. (2000). Uncertainty reduction and communication
satisfaction during initial interaction: An initial test and replication of a new
axiom. Communication Reports, 13(2), 67-77.
Neuliep and Grohskopf (2000) article examine the connection between uncertainty
reduction and satisfaction in communication during the initial interaction. They test a new axiom
recommending that elevated degrees of uncertainty decrease will prompt elevated
communication satisfaction. The review comprises two tests, and the after-effects of the two
trials support the new axiom. The authors propose that future examinations investigate the
connection between uncertainty reduction and communication satisfaction and the elements that
add to each. Generally, the review features the significance of decreasing uncertainty in initial
collaborations for advancing positive communication results.
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References
"Downs, K. J. (2004). Family commitment, role perceptions, social support, and mutual children
in remarriage: A test of uncertainty reduction theory. Journal of Divorce &
Remarriage, 40(1-2), 35-53."
“Ibarra, P. R. (2009). Problematic sociality: Uncertainty and the study of social problems. The
American Sociologist, 40, 79-88."
Karlsen, A. S., Futris, T. G., & Richardson, E. W. (2020). The dyadic effects of relationship
uncertainty on relationship maintenance and damaging behaviors. Journal of Couple &
Relationship Therapy, 19(4), 347-367.
Neuliep, J. W., & Grohskopf, E. L. (2000). Uncertainty reduction and communication
satisfaction during initial interaction: An initial test and replication of a new
axiom. Communication Reports, 13(2), 67-77.
Sharabi, L. L. (2021). Online dating profiles, first-date interactions, and the enhancement of
communication satisfaction and desires for future interaction. Communication
Monographs, 88(2), 131-153.

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