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| feeling unsure or insecure about your ability to predict or explain someone's attitudes and behaviors |
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| feeling confident in your ability to predict and explain someones behavior, often because they believe they know someone well |
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| uncertainty about there partners feeling and intentions, including wheather their partner reciprocates their felings |
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| uncertainty about the general state of your relationship |
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| uncertainty reduction theory |
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| first interpersonal communication theory to focus on uncertainty. Get to know your partner more reduce uncertainity. The drive |
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| uncertainty reduction theory principles |
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1.people seek info to reduce uncertainty during initial encounters with others. aske superfical questions
2.people can reduce uncertainty using passive active or interactive strategies
3. uncertainity decreases, attraction usually increases. More we know predict their behavior |
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| Passive stragegies to reduce uncertainty |
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rely on nonintrusive observation of individuals
ex.looking at someone sitting alone to see if a friend or date comes along, observing how person interacts with others, paying attention to the kinds of clothes a person wears |
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| active strategies to reduce uncertainty |
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Using third parties or manipulating the environment
ex.writting a letter to your girlfriend saying its a secret admior then see if your girlfriend tells you about the letter or if they show up to the meeting location |
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| interactive strategies to reduce uncertanty |
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| direct contact between the information seeker and the target (asking a lot of questions at first, slowing dropping with uncertainty) |
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Asking friends on opinions or answers
ex.a week after the "date that never was" serena might ask vish's best friend if he is still mad at her |
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| interactive strategy, go directly to friend and ask if they are angry at them |
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-test partners commitment to the relationship by creating third person triangle
-fidelity checks
-jeloulsy test, flirting withsome one else to see how partner responds |
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| flirting with someone else |
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creating physical distance between partners
-primary methods to see if your relationship could survive a sumer not seeing each other or see how long it takes for your partner to call |
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| “testing limits”- bad partner on purpose(being late or not showing up for dates to see how commited your partner still is) |
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| putting your self down to see if the partner responds by offering positive feedback |
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| saying boyfriend the first time, look for reaction, Varsity jacket |
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| joke about moving in, but really wants to, just to save face, see reaction |
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| frustration and confusion |
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| boredom and lack of novelty/excitement |
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