“…In summary, during the course of social activity, people may develop a basis for the arousal of prornotiue tension, which is defined as tension coordinated to another's goal attainment. The properties of promotive tension are expected to be consistent with dynamic concepts in field theory developed by Lewin (1935Lewin ( , 1936Lewin ( , 1938Lewin ( , 1951, Deutsch (1949aDeutsch ( , 1949b, Horwitz (1953), Lewis (1944), Lewis andFranklin (1944), andZeigarnik (1927). Specifically, it is argued that whether promotive tension arousal produces behavior which facilitates or hinders another's goal attainment depends on three factors: (a) a person's valence for the goal region being sought after by the other, (b) his perception of the other's valence for that region, and (c) the perceived distance between the other and the goal.…”