Ghosting is the unilateral dissolution process of ceasing communication through media. When ghosted, non‐initiators are often left without the ability to navigate the resulting uncertainty or impending dissolution processes. Utilizing uncertainty reduction theory and ambiguous loss, this investigation explores effective and ineffective strategies used to find answers, reduce uncertainty, and navigate post‐dissolution consequences. Employing two studies from Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a thematic analysis to delineate and affirm categories—7 effective and ineffective strategies and 11 categories of personal and relational implications after being ghosted—was used. These studies provide insight about non‐initiators process to resolve their uncertainty and highlight ramifications from ambiguity that non‐initiators experience after being ghosted. These findings discuss connections to knowledge acquisition, closure processing, and consequences of ghosting.

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难道是？：导航策略可减少不确定性和模棱两可的损失带来的影响

重影是停止通过媒体进行交流的单方面解决过程。当出现重影时，非引发剂通常无法导航所产生的不确定性或即将发生的溶解过程。本研究利用不确定性减少理论和模棱两可的损失，探索了有效和无效的策略，这些策略可用于寻找答案，减少不确定性并解决溶解后的后果。利用来自Amazon Mechanical Turk的两项研究，进行了主题分析，以划定和确认类别-七种有效和无效策略以及被重影后的11个类别的个人和关系含义。这些研究提供了有关非启动程序解决其不确定性的过程的见解，并突出了非启动程序在重影后经历的歧义所带来的后果。