ABSTRACT
Response interference is important in the analysis of dyadic interaction because for each individual the behaviors of the other constitute powerful instigations to responses. On the production side, interference will be directly related to cost and will secondarily affect the quality or reward-value of the produced behavior. On the appreciation side, interference may affect both the perceiving or apprehending of the reward-value of behavior as well as the consummatory experience itself. In relationships that can be severely restricted as to the domain of relevant activity all incompatible sets might be eventually eliminated from the repertoire of interaction. In dyadic interaction the behavior of each person may instigate responses in the other, and these instigated responses may be incompatible with other responses. In interaction response interference may have effects both on the production of behavior and on the appreciation of behavior.
