behaviour control

In the interdependence theory of the US social psychologists Harold H. Kelley (1921–2003) and John W(alter) Thibaut (1917–86), expounded in their book The Social Psychology of Groups (1959) and developed further in Interpersonal Relations: A Theory of Interdependence (1978), an interpersonal situation involving two people, A and B, in which ‘A's control over B's outcomes is contingent on what B does; therefore, they jointly affect B's outcomes’ (1978, p. 31). US behavior control. Compare fate control. BC abbrev.