When in relational communication, people tend to behave, express, communicate in order to reduce the uncertainty with the other party. There are three basic ways people seek information about another person:

• Passive strategies
  
• Active strategies
  
• Interactive strategies
  
  • Self-monitoring is a behavior where we watch and strategically manipulate how we present ourselves to others.
    
• the focal elements of communicative behavior anbd expressions are shown in the table.
  

  • 	Verbal Comm	Non-verbal Warmth	Self- Disclosure	Information Seeking	Reciprocity	Liking	Similarity	Shared Networks
    Verbal Comm	<width='70px'>
    Non-verbal Warmth	+	<width='70px'>
    Self- Disclosure	+	+	<width='70px'>
    Information Seeking	-	-	-	<width='70px'>
    Reciprocity	-	-	-	+	<width='70px'>
    Liking	+	+	+	-	-	<width='70px'>
    Similarity	+	+	+	-	-	+	<width='70px'>
    Shared Networks	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	<width='70px'>