Uncertainty orientation and trust in close relationships: individual differences in cognitive styles

摘要: Because coping with uncertainty is an important aspect of close relationships and critical to issues trust, the authors expected individual differences in orientation play a central role shaping people's representations their relationships. For 3-week period, 77 couples completed series or questionnaires kept diaries on interactions. As expected, certainty-oriented persons'need for cognitive closure resulted either high low trust partners, whereas uncertainty-oriented persons typically attained only moderate level trust. Several other measures indicated that partners round most aversive under Memory data individuals, but not used conclusions about as heuristic reconstructing past ways maintained clarity. Uncertainty also combined gender many interesting