Abstract: It was promising that personality should be understood better under the social culture context and interpersonal relationship background. The theorical model of personality, especially the interpersonal theory of personality represented this trend that the individual behaviors were rooted in the social relation. As a new method and a broad, general analytical tool of resent decade years, the Social Relation Model (SRM) arose from the field of interpersonal perception and person perception. According to this model, three effects, including “perceiver effects”, “target effects” and “relation effects” could be apart from the interpersonal interactions statistically. In this article, from the perspective of interpersonal theory of personality, by introduction the meaning of SRM and its applications in other research topics, it suggested that the SRM would be useful to provide another strategy and specific tool to analyze the individual difference effectively. Furthermore, it could be a renovated way that facilitate to answer the questions of some aspects in personality research

Key words: social relation model, SRM, personality, individual differences, interpersonal perception