About the Book
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:
Preface
Section I: Concepts
Chapter 1. Personality as a situation: A target-centered perspective on social situations
Jens Asendorpf
Chapter 2. The Nonlinear Interaction of Person and Situation (NIPS) Model and its Values for a Psychology of Situations
Gabriela Blum and Manfred Schmitt
Chapter 3. Behavior Genetic Approaches for Situation Research
Daniel Briley
Chapter 4. Other People as Situations: Relational Context Shapes Psychological Phenomena
Margaret S. Clark, Edward P. Lemay, Jr., and Harry T. Reis
Chapter5. Culture's Constraints: The Role of Situational Constraint in Cultural Systems
Michele J. Gelfand, Nava Caluori, Sarah Gordon, Jana Raver, Lisa Nishii, Lisa Leslie, and Janetta Lun
Chapter 6. Situational Strength Theory: A Formalized Conceptualization of a Popular Idea
Rustin D. Meyer, Elnora D. Kelly, and Nathan A. Bowling
Chapter 7. Navigating Interdependent Social Situations
Catherine Molho and Daniel Balliet
Chapter 8. Evolutionary Perspectives on Situations
Rebecca Neel, Nicolas A. Brown, and Oliver Sng
Chapter 9. The Interpersonal Situation: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy
Aaron L. Pincus, Christopher J. Hopwood, and Aidan G. C. Wright
Chapter 10. The ecological rationality of situations: Behavior = f(Adaptive Toolbox, Environment)
Peter M. Todd and Gerd Gigerenzer
Chapter 11. A Personality Perspective on Situations
Joshua Wilt and William Revelle
Chapter 12. Functional Approaches to Representing the Interplay of Situations, Persons, and Behavior Dustin Wood, Seth M. Spain, and P.D. Harms
Section II: Methods
Chapter 13. The Use of Virtual Reality for Understanding Situations: A Fixed Effects Design
David Gallardo-Pujol and Macià Buades-Rotger
Chapter 14. Cross-Cultural Assessment of Situation Experience
Gwendolyn Gardiner, Erica Baranski, Janina and Larissa Buehler
Chapter 15. Latent Variable Modeling of Person-Situation Data
Christian Geiser, Fred Hintz, G. Leonard Burns, and Mateu Servera
Chapter 16. Computational Modeling of Person-Situation Transactions: How Accumulation of Situational Experiences Can Shape the Distributions of Trait Scores
René Mõttus, Mike Allerhand, and Wendy Johnson
Chapter 17. Network analysis for psychological situations
Giulio Costantini, Marco Perugini
Chapter 18. The Riverside Situational Q-sort
Kyle S. Sauerberger and David C. Funder
Chapter 19. Naturalistic Assessment of Situations Using Mobile Sensing Methods
Gabriella M. Harari, Sandrine R. Müller, and Samuel D. Gosling
Chapter 20. Ecological Sampling Methods for Studying Everyday Situations
Cornelia Wrzus and Matthias R. Mehl
Section III: Taxonomies
Chapter 21. Organizing Situation Characteristics by their Influences on Big Five States
Anselma G. Hartley, Eranda Jayawickreme, and William Fleeson
Chapter 22. Assessment of Situational Perceptions: Measurement Issues and a Joint Taxonomization of Persons and Situations
Kai T. Horstmann, Johanna Ziegler, and Matthias Ziegler
Chapter 23. The lexical approach to situations: History, Theory, and Practice
Scott Parrigon
Chapter 24. Language, Subjectivity, Culture, Comprehensiveness, and Structure: Considerations for a Classification of Situations
Gerard Saucier
Chapter 25. The Psychological Characteristics of Situations: Towards an Integrated Taxonomy
John Rauthmann, Kai Horstmann, and Ryne Sherman
Section IV: Applications
Chapter 26. Person-Situation Transactions Across the Lifespan
Katherine Corker and Brent Donnellan
Chapter 27. Health and Situations
Nicolas Brown, David Condon, and Dan Mroczek
Chapter 28. What neuroscience can tell us about social situations: Challenges and Opportunities
Kalina J. Michalska, Gwen Gardiner, and Brent L. Hughes
Chapter 29. Medical Situations
Patrick Morse and Kate Sweeney
Chapter 30. Situations at work: A review of situational factors in understanding work behavior
Robert P. Tett, Jennifer Ragsdale, Sylvia Luu, and Nathan Hundley
Chapter 31. The Culturally Situated Process of Personality Judgment
Yu Yang
