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Incentives to reduce uncertainty
Berger considers the an individual will tend to actively puruse the reduction of uncertainty in an interaction if any of the three conditions are verified:


 * Anticipation of future interaction: A future meeting is a certainty.
 * Incentive value: The person is in possesion of something
 * Deviance: They act in a manner that is departing from accepted standards

Example: There is a new manager in your place of work for a couple of weeks, therefore future interaction with the person is a certainty. The manager is assigning projects to the people in your department. Every project returns a different commision and this will directly influence your income. Arguably, being assigned a higher paying project has a greater incentive value for anyone in the department. The manager has a sibling in your department. This could influence the manager's decision on project assignment. According to the theory, any single afford mentioned factor or all three of them combined can result in an increase in our desire to reduce the uncertainty in interpersonal interactions.

Axioms

 * Axiom 1 - Verbal communication: Given the high level of uncertainty present at the onset of the entry phase, as the amount of verbal communication between strangers increases, the level of uncertainty for each interactant in the relationship will decrease. As uncertainty is further reduced, the amount of verbal communication will increase. It is also important to consider recently published work by Berger, in which, he states the importance of appropriate levels of verbal communication, where too much verbal communication may lead to information seeking by the other party.


 * Axiom 2 - Non-verbal warmth: As non-verbal affiliate expressiveness increases, uncertainty levels will decrease in an initial interaction situation. In addition, decreases in uncertainty level will cause increases in non-verbal affiliative expressiveness


 * Axiom 3 - Information seeking: High levels of uncertainty cause increases in information-seeking behavior. As uncertainty levels decline, information-seeking behavior declines


 * Axiom 4 - Self-disclosure: High levels of uncertainty in a relationship cause decreases in the intimacy level of communication content. Low levels of uncertainty produce high levels of intimacy


 * Axiom 5 - Reciprocity : High levels of unceratainty produce hight rates of reciprocity. Low levels of uncertainty produce low rates of reciprocity.


 * Axiom 6 - Similarity : Similarities between persons reduce uncertainty, while dissimilarities produce increases in uncertainty


 * Axiom 7 - Liking : Increases in uncertainty level produce decreases in liking; decreases in uncertainty produce increases in liking.
 * Axiom 8 - Shared Networks : Shared communication networks reduce uncertainty, while lack of shared networks increases uncertainty.


 * Axiom 9 - Communication satisfaction: There is an inverse relationship between uncertainty and communication satisfaction.