Uncertainty Reduction Theory

In uncertainty reduction theory it is the reducing of doubt into a certain situation, especially in knowing a stranger or a person which is your first time to talked to each other, this theory affirm to reduce uncertainties in gaining information, which those informations also depicts one’s behavior of a person you wanted to know more. Sometimes, it’s better to reduce uncertainties in order to build a friendship to others, there was also a doubt on to the person you’ve just met but in order to gain informations to him or her, is you just deal with him or her in order to build relationship to it.

We all know that, every build relationship, we came up into stangers before, where in you didn’t expect to be close like what you you had now. Example is me and my boyfriend, honestly, i just met him last year into a fast food chain. Like the normal people, I and him didn’t know each other honestly and we saw each other on the counter not knowing that they were schoolmate back then with my cousin in senior high school. Back then, since my cousin accompany me at the counter, they even talked to each other me as both strangers just smiled which my cousin introduces us with each other. On the night that we met, my cousin and all our friends know the boy since they were both schoolmates before because they went to the same school in senior high school. I accompany them and went some ride, we didn’t even talked to each other because there’s this doubt to me that I don’t usually do verbal questionings about everything on to a person I just met. On the second time we’ve met, he talked to me which I talked to him also in order not to be that attitude person since my cousin both introduced us with each other, my expectancy to him was a boastful person but when we talked to each other I realized that it was not. I have a lot of impressions to him before, a lot of uncertainties which is I’d became a judgmental person not knowing him properly. As time passes by, we’ve been chatting and talked to each other as I know him deeper and we have the same likes and dislikes, until we became in a relationship. We met strangers and now as a lovers.

You can reduce the doubt in order to know the person properly. Thus, you also, need to trust the person. Therefore, it’s expected that a new relationship involved uncertainties, and predict behavior.

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