Abstract

The present study was conducted to test an aspect of the model for the interpersonal misunderstandings(Ahn, 1995) through experiment using the 'betrayal of intimacy expectation' situation, in which 'Other doesn't give me help when I needed it'. It was found that the subjects with high need for affiliation had more self-referent thoughts than the subjects with low need for affiliation and this effect of need for affiliation was specially apparent in the condition in which other's help was anticipated. In the same condition, the subjects with high need for affiliation also experienced the emotion of disappointment more frequently than the subjects with low need for affiliation. Within subjects with high need for affiliation, the emotion of disappointment was experienced by more people when they anticipated other's help than when they did not.