Abstract
This chapter describes the present status of the field of “personal relationships,” emphasizes some of the important facts in which research on personal relationships is anchored, and highlights some of the issues the field faces. It summarizes the significance of the Madison Conference, and the significance of personal relationship. The Conference dealt with important practical psychological and social problems and raised crucial scientific questions about such phenomena as social roles, power, social motivation, and perception. A conference on personal relationships consists of a loose collection of researchers and practitioners interested in various particular types of relationships. Personal relations are significant to society, then, insofar as there are many relationships of a certain type and there is uniformity among those of that type in their effects on their members and environments. Social motives have no meaning or existence apart from social interdependence.
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