مؤتمر
Uncertainty Reduction during Initial Interaction: How Do People Get To Know Each Other?
| العنوان: | Uncertainty Reduction during Initial Interaction: How Do People Get To Know Each Other? |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Tidwell, Lisa Collins |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 31 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 1995 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Speeches/Meeting Papers Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Communication Research, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students |
| مستخلص: | A study examined the trajectory of uncertainty about a partner (target uncertainty) and uncertainty about what to say and do (conversational uncertainty) during initial interaction, those factors of the interaction which impact uncertainty, and the extent to which uncertainty reduction is mutual and collects around "critical events." Subjects, 42 opposite-sex dyads consisting of undergraduates enrolled in communication courses at a large southwestern university, met for four minutes and provided pre- and post-conversation measures of uncertainty as well as an indication of the cues that influenced their uncertainty. Subsequent analyses revealed that target uncertainty was significantly higher than conversational uncertainty at the onset of the conversations and, although the margin decreased, remained higher across the interaction. Uncertainty reduction did not appear to be associated with specific information-seeking strategies; in fact, uncertainty reduction was often synchronous across partners. Instances of synchrony generally involved reduction of target uncertainty by one partner and reduction of conversational uncertainty by the other may be linked to the discovery of common ground, which participants also identified as an important step in reducing uncertainty. (Contains 40 references and four tables of data.) (Author/RS) |
| Entry Date: | 1995 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | ED384091 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| الوصف غير متاح. |