A Theory of Communication and Uncertainty Management.

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Uncertainty Reduction Theory (2015, background): “Brashers’ (2007) writes that “Learning to manage uncertainty is an important life skill that communication researchers can help people develop (p. 214).””
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).”