Includes bibliographical references.

Generally unseen challenges in uncertainty management : an application of problematic integration theory / Austin S. Babrow -- Reclaiming uncertainty : the formation of new meanings / Leslie A. Baxter -- The theory of communication and uncertainty management : implications from the wider realm of information behavior / Timothy P. Hogan -- Information seeking and interpersonal outcomes using the internet / Artemio Ramirez, Jr. -- Expanding the role of emotion in the theory of motivated information management / Walid A. Afifi -- Relational uncertainty : theory and application / Leanne K. Knobloch -- Motivated cognition in its interpersonal context : need for closure and its implications for information regulation and social interaction / Mark Dechesne -- Use of the risk perception attitude (RPA) framework for understanding health information seeking : the role of anxiety, risk perception, and efficacy beliefs / Rajiv N. Rimal -- Managing uncertainty in work interactions / Michael W. Kramer -- Information regulation in work-life : applying the comprehensive model of information seeking to organizational networks / J. David Johnson -- Couples, communication, and uncertainty in the face of chronic illness / Daena J. Goldsmith -- An integrated model of health disclosure decision-making / Kathryn Greene -- Information uncertainty and sexual disclosures in the era of HIV/AIDs / Serena C. Lo -- Why people conceal or reveal secrets : a multiple goals theory perspective / John P. Caughlin -- Secrecy in close relationships : investigating its intrapersonal and interpersonal effects / Catrin Finkenauer -- Conflict avoidance : a functional analysis / Michael Roloff -- The standards for openness hypothesis : a gendered explanation for why avoidance is so dissatisfying / Tamara D. Afifi -- Regulating the privacy of confidentiality : grasping the complexities through communication privacy management theory / Sandra Petronio -- Why disclosing to a confidant can be so good (or bad) for us / Anita Kelly -- The divorce disclosure model (DDM) : why parents disclose negative information about the divorce to their children and its effects / Tamara D. Afifi.