Communication and Uncertainty Management.

By Dale E. Brashers. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Relational Uncertainty and Relationship Talk within Courtship: A Longitudinal Actor–Partner Interdependence Model (2011, background): “Similarly, uncertainty management theory proposes that people should work to preserve ambiguity when the alternative is certainty about an undesired outcome (Brashers, 2001, 2007).”
The Science of Using Science: Researching the Use of Research Evidence in Decision-Making (2016, background): “Brashers 2006) and in relation to the body of science on climate change (e.g. Patt & Weber 2013). Budescu and peers (2009) for instance investigate how the communication of uncertainty in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can be improved.”
Middle managers' uncertainty management during organizational change (2006, background): “Uncertainty can be defined as ambiguity about the outcomes of various actions, when the situation is unpredictable and when information is inconsistent or unavailable (Brashers, 2001).”
Motivated Processing (2015, background): “Yet information that is unpredictable and inconsistent, such as that in novel and contradictory news, arouses ambiguity and uncertainty (Brashers, 2001).”
What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance (2013, background): “That is, under some circumstances, uncertainty is the desired state, and information avoidance is the means through which that state can be maintained by Maxwell Boykoff on June 2, 2013scx.sagepub.comDownloaded from (Brashers, 2001).”
Effects of Economic Uncertainty on Mental Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic Context: Social Identity Disturbance, Job Uncertainty and Psychological Well-Being Model (2020, background): “Uncertainty is characterized as the presence of ambiguous, complex, and unpredictable conditions and a lack of information availability and consistency, where people doubt public, general, and their own knowledge (Brashers, 2001).”
Uncertainty during Organizational Change: Managing Perceptions through Communication (2007, background): “In contrast to uncertainty reduction theory, the theory of uncertainty management offers an alternative conceptualization of the construct, in which uncertainty is not solely defined as a negative state (Brashers, 2001).”
Equity and uncertainty in relational maintenance (2003, background): “For example, regarding uncertainty in relationships, Brashers (2001) argued that, counter to the claims of URT, sometimes people seek uncertaintyincreasing information, and sometimes they seek to maintain uncer-”
A dialectical theory of the decision to go to work: Bringing together absenteeism and presenteeism (2014, background): “For an employee that wants to retain closedness by not revealing his or her illness to the supervisor, as the communication of illness can lead to uncertainty in the employment relationship (Brashers, 2001), presenteeism is more likely until the illness becomes serious enough that disclosure is unav”
Information Avoidance: Who, What, When, and Why (2010, background): “In addition to research on selective exposure, researchers in communication and information sciences have developed a variety of theoretical models to describe how people deal with information and manage uncertainty (e.g., Afifi & Weiner, 2004; Babrow, 2001; Berger & Calabrese, 1975; Brashers, 2001;”
Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts (2002, methodology): “We combine our own theories of uncertainty management (Brashers, 2001; Goldsmith, 2001) to develop a normative perspective (Goldsmith, 1992; Goldsmith & Fitch, 1997) on information seeking and avoiding.”
Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to adult children’s discussions of caregiving with aging parents (2011, background): “The TMIM grew out of a wide range of theoretical frameworks, including Uncertainty Management Theory (Brashers, 2001) and Problematic Integration Theory (Babrow, 2001), from the literature on uncertainty, and the Heuristic Systematic Model (Chaiken, 1987), Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1997), an”
Compassionate Communication in the Workplace: Exploring Processes of Noticing, Connecting, and Responding (2007, background): “What was most interesting in this research was the support given to Babrow’s (1992, 2001) and others’ (e.g., Brashers, 2001) contention that uncertainty need not always be reduced in order to enhance outcomes.”
Uncertainty Reduction Theory (2015, background): “Dale Brashers’ (2001) definition of uncertainty provides some sense of how he and his colleagues have extended the boundaries of uncertainty reduction theory: “Uncertainty exists when details of situations are ambiguous, complex, unpredictable, or probabilistic; when information is unavailable or in”
The content of relational uncertainty within marriage (2008, background): “This finding must be interpreted cautiously because it was idiosyncratic in the set (see Table 5), but it hints that spouses may prefer skepticism about possible illness to conviction about actual illness (e.g., Bradac, 2001; Brashers, 2001).”
Exploring lay uncertainty about an environmental health risk (2007, background): “Brashers (2001), for example, says, “Uncertainty exists when details of situations are ambiguous, complex, unpredictable, or probabilistic … when people feel insecure in their own state of knowledge or the state of knowledge in general” (p. 478).”
Managing Uncertainty During Collaborative Problem Solving in Elementary School Teams: The Role of Peer Influence in Robotics Engineering Activity (2014, methodology): “We drew on communication theories related to uncertainty management (e.g., Babrow et al., 1998; Brashers, 2001) to organize our thinking about strategies students used to reduce, ignore, maintain, and increase uncertainty (see Table 2).”
The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics (2019, background): “…Contexts Generally, uncertainty is “when details of situations are ambiguous, complex, unpredictable, or probabilistic; when information is unavailable or inconsistent; and when people feel insecure in their own state of knowledge or the state of knowledge in general” (Brashers, 2001, p. 478).”