The Structure of Independence

由于在社会生活中人与人之间存在联系或联系，所以许多人是不独立的或相关的。例如，教室里的孩子们通过友谊和空间上的接近而联系在一起。虽然已经开发了关于非独立性的专门模型(例如社会关系模型)，但尚未开发出估计和测试相互依赖的一般方法。到目前为止，还没有一种通用的方法来衡量人与人之间联系的强度。这项研究阐述了这样一种方法。将开发统计模型，编写交互式计算机程序，并使用以前收集的数据对软件进行评估。这将使我们能够估计我们已经有方法的设计的联系强度，对于我们目前已知但还不知道如何估计联系的设计，以及对于尚未发现的设计。这项工作应该对社会心理学的许多领域有用：社会影响、小群体研究、群体间关系、人际感知、社会支持和人际关系。

ABSTRACT Because in social life there are ties or linkages between persons, scores of persons are nonindependent or related. For instance, children in classrooms are linked together by friendship and spatial proximity. Although specialized models on nonindependence have been developed (e.g., the Social Relations Model), a general approach to the estimation and testing for interdependence has yet to be developed. There is as yet no general approach to the measurement of the strength of the ties between people. This research explicates such an approach. A statistical model will be developed, an interactive computer program will be written, and the software will be evaluated using previously collected data. This will enable us to estimate the strength of ties for designs in which we already have methods, for designs we currently know of but do not yet know how to estimate linkage, as well as for designs that have yet to be discovered. The work should be useful to many areas in social psychology: social influence, small group research, intergroup relations, interpersonal perception, social support, and personal relationships.