Description
Situations matter. They let people express their personalities and values; provoke motivations, emotions, and behaviors; and are the contexts in which people reason and act. The psychological assessment of situations is a new and rapidly developing area of research, particularly within the fields of personality and social psychology. This volume compiles state-of-the-art knowledge on psychological situations in chapters written by experts in their respective research areas. Bringing together historical reviews, theoretical pieces, methodological descriptions, and empirical applications, this volume is the definitive, go-to source for a psychology of situations.
Table of Contents
PrefaceSection I: ConceptsChapter 1. Personality as a situation: A target-centered perspective on social situationsJens AsendorpfChapter 2. The Nonlinear Interaction of Person and Situation (NIPS) Model and its Values for a Psychology of SituationsGabriela Blum and Manfred SchmittChapter 3. Behavior Genetic Approaches for Situation ResearchDaniel BrileyChapter 4. Other People as Situations: Relational Context Shapes Psychological PhenomenaMargaret S. Clark, Edward P. Lemay, Jr., and Harry T. ReisChapter5. Culture's Constraints: The Role of Situational Constraint in Cultural SystemsMichele J. Gelfand, Nava Caluori, Sarah Gordon, Jana Raver, Lisa Nishii, Lisa Leslie, and Janetta LunChapter 6. Situational Strength Theory: A Formalized Conceptualization of a Popular IdeaRustin D. Meyer, Elnora D. Kelly, and Nathan A. BowlingChapter 7. Navigating Interdependent Social SituationsCatherine Molho and Daniel BallietChapter 8. Evolutionary Perspectives on SituationsRebecca Neel, Nicolas A. Brown, and Oliver SngChapter 9. The Interpersonal Situation: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Personality, Psychopathology, and PsychotherapyAaron L. Pincus, Christopher J. Hopwood, and Aidan G. C. WrightChapter 10. The ecological rationality of situations: Behavior = f(Adaptive Toolbox, Environment)Peter M. Todd and Gerd GigerenzerChapter 11. A Personality Perspective on SituationsJoshua Wilt and William RevelleChapter 12. Functional Approaches to Representing the Interplay of Situations, Persons, and Behavior Dustin Wood, Seth M. Spain, and P.D. HarmsSection II: MethodsChapter 13. The Use of Virtual Reality for Understanding Situations: A Fixed Effects DesignDavid Gallardo-Pujol and Macià Buades-RotgerChapter 14. Cross-Cultural Assessment of Situation ExperienceGwendolyn Gardiner, Erica Baranski, Janina and Larissa BuehlerChapter 15. Latent Variable Modeling of Person-Situation DataChristian Geiser, Fred Hintz, G. Leonard Burns, and Mateu ServeraChapter 16. Computational Modeling of Person-Situation Transactions: How Accumulation of Situational Experiences Can Shape the Distributions of Trait ScoresRené Mõttus, Mike Allerhand, and Wendy JohnsonChapter 17. Network analysis for psychological situationsGiulio Costantini, Marco PeruginiChapter 18. The Riverside Situational Q-sortKyle S. Sauerberger and David C. FunderChapter 19. Naturalistic Assessment of Situations Using Mobile Sensing MethodsGabriella M. Harari, Sandrine R. Müller, and Samuel D. GoslingChapter 20. Ecological Sampling Methods for Studying Everyday SituationsCornelia Wrzus and Matthias R. MehlSection III: TaxonomiesChapter 21. Organizing Situation Characteristics by their Influences on Big Five StatesAnselma G. Hartley, Eranda Jayawickreme, and William FleesonChapter 22. Assessment of Situational Perceptions: Measurement Issues and a Joint Taxonomization of Persons and SituationsKai T. Horstmann, Johanna Ziegler, and Matthias ZieglerChapter 23. The lexical approach to situations: History, Theory, and PracticeScott ParrigonChapter 24. Language, Subjectivity, Culture, Comprehensiveness, and Structure: Considerations for a Classification of SituationsGerard SaucierChapter 25. The Psychological Characteristics of Situations: Towards an Integrated TaxonomyJohn Rauthmann, Kai Horstmann, and Ryne ShermanSection IV: ApplicationsChapter 26. Person-Situation Transactions Across the LifespanKatherine Corker and Brent DonnellanChapter 27. Health and SituationsNicolas Brown, David Condon, and Dan MroczekChapter 28. What neuroscience can tell us about social situations: Challenges and OpportunitiesKalina J. Michalska, Gwen Gardiner, and Brent L. HughesChapter 29. Medical SituationsPatrick Morse and Kate SweeneyChapter 30. Situations at work: A review of situational factors in understanding work behaviorRobert P. Tett, Jennifer Ragsdale, Sylvia Luu, and Nathan HundleyChapter 31. The Culturally Situated Process of Personality JudgmentYu Yang