Edited sentence: Finally, Ickes developed a theory of how people's sex roles (gender roles) affect their behavior and experience in initial interactions.His 1994 article with Richard Gonzalez was the first to draw a strong distinction between subjective social cognition, which occurs entirely in one person's head and concerns either imagined, reflected-upon, or anticipated interaction, and intersubjective social cognition, which occurs during an actual, ongoing social interaction and involves the intersubjective experience of the interaction partners.In addition to his work on empathic accuracy, Ickes has made a broader contribution to the study of intersubjective social cognition.Similarly, his development of a method for measuring empathic accuracy is only part of his broader contribution to developing methods for the study of naturalistic social cognition.Subsequent papers elaborated on this distinction, which owes much to the existentialist influence of writers such as Alfred Schutz and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.The impact of this theory has so far been quite limited, however, perhaps because it did not receive much attention when the first version of the theory was published in 1981.These methods enable the assessment and content analysis of the actual thoughts and feelings that interaction partners report, and they permit an exploration of the intersubjective themes that characterize the interactions of different dyad types