Recent research on crowding has not always separated the situational from the affective and behavioral components of this construct. The present study represents an attempt to distinguish among these components, and to explore the dimensions underlying the perception of crowded interpersonal situations and the behavioral and affective responses to such situations. Likelihood judgments of responses to crowded situations were subjected to three-mode factor analysis. The dimensionality of the components, as well as the interrelationships among them, are discussed in detail, and behavior patterns particularly appropriate or likely in different situational contexts are identified.
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