Abstract

Theoretical analyses were performed on the following three aspects of the triadic social situations : (1) The propositions that triadic situations will be perceived in terms of positivity and agreement factors and the dynamics of cognitive and affective responses to the triadic situations will be different were proposed. It was indicated that cognitive dynamics will be in the direction of the harmony of two psychological factors and affective dynamics will be summation of two factors and their interaction. (2) It was argued that cognitive theory of triadic situations should absolutely be predicated upon the P's perceptions of the relations and that P/X and O/X relations directly related to the perceptions of attitude similarity-dissimilarity. The proposition that important determinant of attitude similarity-dissimilarity perceptions will be coobtainable-co-unobtainable nature of the X was proposed. (3) The necessity of inclusions of multi-objects and multi-persons in the triadic situations for understanding of the interpersonal relations was indicated. The propositions that the strength of the P/O relations will be determined by the number and proportion of the agreements and that strength of the P/X relation will be determined by the positivity of the P/O relation and number of the agreements were proposed. It was emphasized that the importance of the object will determine the interpersonal processes and this cocept of importance include both breadth and depth dimensions of the interpersonal relations. It was also argued that the P/X relations will be unstable in the situations of negative other person.