The Social Relations Model

The Social Relations Model represents one method of studying two-person relationships. It attempts to separate the effects of persons and dyad. The Social Relations Model has three potential contributions to the study of dyads. First, it provides a purely methodological-statistical solution to the analysis of dyadic data. The Social Relations Model represents a new approach to the analysis of dyadic data structures. Second, the model can provide social psychology with better procedures to resolve the theoretical issues of the discipline. Third, the model is useful because it looks at social behavior as simultaneously operating at multiple levels. Very different principles operate at these different levels and only by simultaneously examining social behavior at different levels, the complexity and simplicity of social life can be fully appreciated.