- Personality as a Situation: A Target-Centered Perspective on Social Situations
- The Nonlinear Interaction of Person and Situation (NIPS) Model and Its Values for a Psychology of Situations
- Behavior Genetic Approaches for Situation Research
- Other People as Situations: Relational Context Shapes Psychological Phenomena
- Culture’s Constraints: The Role of Situational Constraint in Cultural Systems
- Situational Strength Theory: A Formalized Conceptualization of a Popular Idea
- Navigating Interdependent Social Situations
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Situations
- The Interpersonal Situation: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy
- The Ecological Rationality of Situations: Behavior = <i>f</i>(Adaptive Toolbox, Environment)
- A Personality Perspective on Situations
- Functional Approaches to Representing the Interplay of Situations, Persons, and Behavior
- The Use of Virtual Reality for Understanding Situations: A Fixed Effects Design
- Cross-Cultural Assessment of Situational Experience
- Latent Variable Modeling of Person-Situation Data
- Computational Modeling of Person-Situation Transactions: How Accumulation of Situational Experiences Can Shape the Distributions of Trait Scores
- Network Analysis for Psychological Situations
- Naturalistic Assessment of Situations Using Mobile Sensing Methods
- Ecological Sampling Methods for Studying Everyday Situations
- Organizing Situation Characteristics by Their Influences on Big Five States
- Assessment of Situational Perceptions: Measurement Issues and a Joint Taxonomization of Persons and Situations
- The Lexical Approach to Situations: History, Theory, and Practice
- Language, Subjectivity, Culture, Comprehensiveness, and Structure: Considerations for a Classification of Situations
- The Psychological Characteristics of Situations: Towards an Integrated Taxonomy
- Person-Situation Transactions across the Lifespan
- Health and Situations
- What Neuroscience Can Tell Us about Social Situations: Challenges and Opportunities
- Medical Situations
- Situations at Work: A Review of Situational Factors in Understanding Work Behavior
- The Culturally Situated Process of Personality Judgment
Abstract and Keywords
Personality is the unique patterning of affect, behavior, cognition, and desire across different situations, and therefore the study of situations is integral to the science of personality. This chapter reviews the role of personality factors in situational choice and situational experience and shows how the concepts of latency and persistence help facilitate a dynamic understanding of these topics. Situational choice is influenced by trait-consistency, expected and desired affect, and higher-order goals. Choices to engage in different situations over time have potential developmental implications for personality stability and change. Personality traits influence situational experience in terms of cognitive construal, affect, and state manifestations of personality. The distinction between nomothetic and idiographic approaches adds another level of nuance to the study of situational experience. The chapter concludes with a graphical demonstration of the relations between personality and affect across different situations.
Keywords: Personality, situational choice, situational experience, latency, persistence, nomothetic-idiographic
Case Western Reserve University
Northwestern University
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- Personality as a Situation: A Target-Centered Perspective on Social Situations
- The Nonlinear Interaction of Person and Situation (NIPS) Model and Its Values for a Psychology of Situations
- Behavior Genetic Approaches for Situation Research
- Other People as Situations: Relational Context Shapes Psychological Phenomena
- Culture’s Constraints: The Role of Situational Constraint in Cultural Systems
- Situational Strength Theory: A Formalized Conceptualization of a Popular Idea
- Navigating Interdependent Social Situations
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Situations
- The Interpersonal Situation: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy
- The Ecological Rationality of Situations: Behavior = <i>f</i>(Adaptive Toolbox, Environment)
- A Personality Perspective on Situations
- Functional Approaches to Representing the Interplay of Situations, Persons, and Behavior
- The Use of Virtual Reality for Understanding Situations: A Fixed Effects Design
- Cross-Cultural Assessment of Situational Experience
- Latent Variable Modeling of Person-Situation Data
- Computational Modeling of Person-Situation Transactions: How Accumulation of Situational Experiences Can Shape the Distributions of Trait Scores
- Network Analysis for Psychological Situations
- Naturalistic Assessment of Situations Using Mobile Sensing Methods
- Ecological Sampling Methods for Studying Everyday Situations
- Organizing Situation Characteristics by Their Influences on Big Five States
- Assessment of Situational Perceptions: Measurement Issues and a Joint Taxonomization of Persons and Situations
- The Lexical Approach to Situations: History, Theory, and Practice
- Language, Subjectivity, Culture, Comprehensiveness, and Structure: Considerations for a Classification of Situations
- The Psychological Characteristics of Situations: Towards an Integrated Taxonomy
- Person-Situation Transactions across the Lifespan
- Health and Situations
- What Neuroscience Can Tell Us about Social Situations: Challenges and Opportunities
- Medical Situations
- Situations at Work: A Review of Situational Factors in Understanding Work Behavior
- The Culturally Situated Process of Personality Judgment
