Abstract

COMMENTARIES 305 positivity and the other anxiety, is a representative case. If cess in mother-infant interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 243-253. feeling states and their behavioral manifestation can shift in Cappella, J. N. (1988). Interaction patterns and social and personal rela- direction of association as a function of personal and situa- tionships. In S. Duck (Ed.), Handbook of social and personal rela- tional moderators, then the theory will be very limited in tionships (pp. 325-342). New York: Wiley. scope until the way that moderators operate to alter the feel- Cappella, J. N., Palmer, M. T., & Donzella, B. (1990). Individual con- sistency in temporal adaptations in nonverbal behavior in dyadic con- ing-behavior relationship is specified. The authors do limit versations: High and low expressive groups. Unpublished manuscript, the scope of the theory holding that "the context of an in- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication teraction is one in which the individuals have . . . friendly, Arts. cooperative goals." The much more difficult question of the Condon, W. S., & Ogston, W. D. (1967). A segmentation of behavior. effect of moderating conditions on the feeling-behavior as- Journal of Psychiatric Research, 5, 221-235. Davis, D. (1982).