• Founders of Interpersonal Theory
  • Harry Stack Sullivan
  • The Kaiser Foundation
  • Timothy Leary

• What Is Interpersonal Theory?
  • Interpersonal Complementarity
    • A Reinforcing System
    • The Self-System
    • The Influence of Individual Differences
    • The Influence of Base Rates
    • Complementarity and Depression
  • Interpersonal Rigidity
  • The Interpersonal Circumplex

• Properties of a Circumplex
  • What Is a Circumplex?
  • Circumplex Versus Simple Struture
  • Why It Does Not Matter which Axis Is Vertical
  • Why "Variables" Is the Neutral Term for Elements of a Circumplex
  • A Hierarchy of Models

• Alternative Circumplex Taxonomies
  • The Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB)
  • The Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumplex (AB5C)
  • The Non-Evaluative Circumplex of Personality Adjectives
  • The Circumplex of Affect

• Interpersonal Theory Links

• Interpersonal Theory References
  • The Short List
  • Everything except Complementarity
  • Everything on Complementarity

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