Essays on Uncertainty Reduction Theory

Lately, everyone has been raving about the newest Netflix docuseries, CHEER. CHEER follows the Navarro Junior College cheer team on their quest to win their 14th national title. One of the athletes that they spotlight is Lexi Brumback. Lexi is a young girl who comes...

Anxiety/ Uncertainty Management theory was created by William B. Gudykunst to define how humans communicate successfully based on their anxiety and uncertainty in social situations. William B. Gudykunst believed that in order to have successful intercultural communication a reduction in anxiety/ uncertainty must occur. In...

 Uncertainty reduction theory (URT) was initially presented as a series of axioms – universal true statements which do not need to be proved, and theorems – propositions considered to be true but needed explanation, which describe the codependency between uncertainty and different communication factors. A...