The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes
significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century …

While I write this chapter, millions of people in the Darfur province of Sudan have been
terrorized off their land; the entire population of Iraq has little idea what the future of their …

The fundamental challenge for refining theories of communication and uncertainty is to
abandon the assumption that uncertainty will produce anxiety. To better explain processes …

Question: How have theorists and empirical researchers treated the human tendency to
avoid discomforting information? Data Sources: A historical review (1890–2004) of theory …

Although social support is traditionally conceived as taking place in close personal
relationships via face-to-face interaction, social support is also exchanged in numerous …

Communication is a means of managing uncertainty. In a state of uncertainty:(a) information
seeking can reduce uncertainty by allowing for better discrimination between or among …

People with chronic and acute illnesses experience uncertainty about their prognoses,
potential treatments, social relationships, and identity concerns. In a focus group study of …

Social support provides general social therapy for all types of incongruities one may
encounter, soothing and relieving the symptoms of the person encountering the incongruity …

This paper compares 3 theories examining the role of communication in producing and
coping with subjective uncertainty. Uncertainty reduction theory offers axioms and derived …

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