中文摘要：

社会计量器理论提出自尊是个体对社交接纳或拒绝的主观计量器，它监控和调节着人们的人际关系质量。目前，该领域的研究主要从两方面展开：一方面从社交反馈的角度探讨了社交接纳与人际评价对状态自尊的影响；另一方面从社交行为的角度探讨了特质自尊对社交意愿和社交决策的影响。未来的研究需要对影响自尊的社交情境进行具体区分，并就社交反馈、心理变化与社交行为的关系，任务特性的认知过程对自尊的影响进行综合探讨。

英文摘要：

Social psychologists concern about the origin and function of self-esteem. Thir theories suggest that self-esteem is influenced by interpersonal factors, but they did not represent the relation between them. Basing on symbolic intemctionism and biological evolution, Mark Leafy advanced the Sociometer Theory and interpreted the nature and function of self-esteem from the aspect of relationship between self-esteem and interpersonal interaction. There are many empirical researches around the theory, which is very helpful for people to understand the role of self-esteem in social interaction. This paper introduced the theoretical origin and the basic viewpoints of the Sociometer Theory, and sorted out achievements in this field based on the theoretical assumption about the relationship between self-esteem and interpersonal interaction. We hope this will help other psychologists to acquaint the trend of the research in the field and provide reference to conduct relevant studies. The Sociometer Theory suggests that self-esteem is an internal, subjective marker of the individual＇s inclusionary status, which monitors the quality of interpersonal relationships, and the relationship between self-esteem and interpersonal interaction has been interpreted by the numbers. So far, related researches of the Sociometer Theory were carried out from two primary orientations： on the one hand, to examine the effect of social acceptance and interpersonal evaluation on state self-esteem from the perspective of social feedback, and many researches have found that social acceptance/rejection and evaluation from others will make self-esteem fluctuate; on the other hand, to examine how trait self-esteem affects social willingness and social decision-making from the perspective of social behavior, and the researches suggest that people with high self-esteem will be more confident than those with low self-esteem, and less influenced by the acceptance/rejection from others, and their perception of interpersonal evaluation and way of earn