Uncertainty reduction theory

banking system was sound because the real estate underlying loans could never drop in value. And despite these reverses, we seem to cling to certainty. Prediction has been described as the brain’s primary function, so we aren’t about to stop. Uncertainty triggers the fight or flight response, while certainty makes us feel warm and calm. Some have suggested we are actually addicted to certainty. As we are only intermittently rewarded with being right, our addiction is strengthened. Businesses…

Risk assessment of cement industry Risk: Risk is the possibility of gaining or losing something of value. Risk Assessment: An organized process of assessing the possible risks that may be involved in an expected activity or job Why is risk assessment important? Risk assessment is very important as it play vital role in an occupational health and safety management plan. It helps to: • Generate attentiveness of hazards and risk. • Identify who may be at risk (e.g., workers, sweepers, outside…

Coordinated emergency response depends on teamwork, planning for response should involve the emergency team. Research should be supplemented by interviews with officials of the response organization. They may have information and insights that the planning coordinator may lack, as well as ideas that can bring creative solutions to problems. Key officials also determine what staff will be made available for planning meetings and what priority emergency planning issues will have in a days…

formulating a theory of argumentation as neither a positive nor a negative engagement but an amoral engagement with power resting…

Frederic Clemson Howe once said, “War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.” This explains the situations of Robert Ross, Werner Heisenberg, and Niels Bohr. They all sacrificed, which only lead to suffering for all of them. Although one is a coming of age novel about a WW1 soldier and the other is a play about an imaginary meeting of WWII scientists, both The Wars by Timothy Findley and Copenhagen by Michael Frayn explore the ways in which war affects individuals…

After viewing World on Fire, reading chapter 9 and reflecting on my own life I truly comprehend how where we live makes a difference. Where we live shapes the lives we lead in relation to technology and access to education. In the United States, we are one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, and in many low-income countries there is little to no advancement in technology. This is mostly due to the high importance placed on cultural tradition in many of these countries…

Give a man a fish, he eats for the night, teach a man how to fish and he eats forever. Earth is home to 7.4 billion people -- of those 7.4 billion people more than 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day (UNDP). More than 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day; or in other words, extreme poverty (UNDP). Poverty is a worldwide hurdle that nobody has yet to knockdown. Poverty, Inc. is a film that shows the untold impacts of foreign aid; moreover, how America, NGO’s (non-governmental…

Brazil’s industrialisation and development has been constrained by the lack of technology and skilled human capital. Ban considers Brazil 's new development policies to be similar to the 'economically liberal policy goals and instruments associated with the [Washington] consensus and policy goals and instruments that can be traced to the developmentalist tradition ' (Ban, 2013: 299). And that neo-developmentalist follow a tradition 'unlike the protectionism and export pessimism of old…

Before there was issue how companies are promoting poverty but after the mandatory CSR Act in India thinking towards companies have changes and also Companies are becoming role model in reduction of poverty. Big and small Companies including NGO taking initiative to work towards poverty (Prieto‐Carrón, Lund‐Thomsen, Chan, Muro, & Bhushan, 2006). The study on based of the comparative perspective globalization and the extension of global multinational…

The goal of Social Justice is to develop the ability of people to realize their potential in the society in which they live and to enable them to lead fulfilling lives and be active contributors to their community.[5] Poverty reduction means creating conditions which enable all members of our community to develop their talents and abilities, actively participate in economic and social life, and enjoy a good standard of living on a sustainable basis.[4] The concept of health equity…