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Viewing desperate love as marked by insecurity, urgency, a great need for reciprocation, idealization and affective extremes, this study was designed to investigate the assumption that desperate love constitutes a manifestation of predispositional characteristics. The primary hypothesis is that people can be differentiated as tending or not tending toward the experiences of desperate love based upon significantly different patterns of response when describing characteristic qualities of the self and important others. A secondary hypothesis is that this differentiation is also reflected in a more romantic attitude toward love along the romantic-companionate continuum among those who tend toward desperate love.

This study examined the utility of the conceot of interaction tendency in explaining personal spacing behavior. Interaction tendency v/as defined as an aggregate of feelings about an interaction situation and as a mediator between personal spacing behavior and the kind of associations connected with an interaction. It was hypothesized that as the positivity of the associations connected with an interaction increased, interaction tendency increased, and personal spacing decreased. Two levels of task (problem solving and conversation), two levels of associations connected with the task (positive and negative), and tv;o levels of associations connected with the other interactant (positive and negative) were manipulated, and the resultant seating behavior was observed. It was found that the independent variables were not predictive of seating behavior.

There is a lack of research in the field of computer-mediated communication (CMC), pertaining to interpersonal relationships. With an increase in the number of people who use the internet, more interpersonal relationships are starting to form between people utilizing this CMC medium. Because of this increase in interpersonal relationships hosted on-line, social psychologists have begun to examine the differences between face-to-face (FTF) and CMC relationships. The relative strength of an interpersonal relationship can be measured by interpersonal solidarity, trust, attraction, intimacy, and a relationship assessment. The purpose of this research is to determine whether communication mediums have an effect on the relative strength of interpersonal relationships. The following research reveals findings from a study conducted on a college campus using simulated communication mediums and measurement scales to assess how strong the participants felt interpersonal relationships were in different communication mediums. Results from this study indicated that there were no significant differences in the relative strength of interpersonal relationships in different communication mediums.

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