According to Goffman's politeness theory, people try to preserve their social face in public situations. They do this by using a strategy of politeness, so that others gain positive impression of them. Research has shown that the consequences of using this strategy can lead to various misunderstandings in communication. The aim of this paper is to check whether the transmission of information about certain events can be attributed to the act of politeness. More precisely, will the probability of the occurrence of the event, the level of its threat and agreeableness as a dimension of personality affect the way in which participants convey information about the event. Already existing experimental scenarios in the Croatian language, in which the verbal expressions of the probability of the event and its threat were rotated, were used. The task of the participants (N = 328) was to imagine how they convey information about the described events to a close person in a form of a percentage. After that, the participants filled out the agreeableness subscale of the HEXACO questionnaire. The results show that the participants are more inclined to reduce the probability of events that represent a greater threat, which confirmed the existence of the politeness effect. However, this applies only to situations of medium probability, i.e. when there is an equal chance that the event will, or will not happen. No difference was found in low and high probability situations. In terms of agreeableness, there was no difference in the way of conveying information among participants who scored high and low on the HEXACO questionnaire.