Three groups of subjects (depressed, nondepressed/other psychological problems, and normal) interacted with a same-sex normal person in a modified Prisoner's Dilemma procedure in which each player's relative power was manipulated. Dyads also had several opportunities to exchange communications during the game. The results indicated that when depressed individuals were in the high-power role, the interactive pattern in the Prisoner's Dilemma procedure was relatively exploitive and noncooperative. High-power depressed persons also displayed elevation in communications of self-devaluation-sadness and helplessness. This array of behaviors elicited noncooperativeness, extrapunitiveness, and expressions of helplessness in their normal partners. Depressives in the low-power role exhibited no unique game behaviors but communicated self-devaluation and helpless messages; and in addition, they tended to blame their partner for their devalued condition-a pattern that elicited more ingratiating behaviors in their normal partners. These findings are discussed in relation to social-interactional approaches to depression. This report is an attempt to extend the literature on the interpersonal behaviors of depressed individuals and to study further the reactions of others to those behaviors. The growing body of data on these issues (cf.

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