BEYOND HOMO-STRATEGUS - A COMMENT ON KELLEY ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ORIENTATIONS

This comment addresses Kelley's tar get article that provides a model aimed at providing a broad theoretical model for all of our ongoing in terpersonal life. We underline Kelley's assertion to use abstract mini mal representations for assessment purposes, but observe that similar principles should hold for theoretical models. Kelley's theoretical mo del defies falsification because there are many possible problems for confounding. In addition the model is heavily influenced by the domina nt game theoretical protocol in that it focuses on strategic behaviour to be found in control-type relationships, thereby ignoring the affil iative type of interpersonal behaviour. Finally it is observed that al though sequential-temporal aspects of behaviour are integrated in the model, the model neglects the embeddedness of the dyad in other groups and organizations, thereby ignoring the long-term effect of the exter nalities on the collective level.