This chapter surveys how the main effects of persons and situations on behavior are
generally assessed and sometimes compared and considers some of the pitfalls in that …

Taxonomies of person characteristics are well developed, whereas taxonomies of
psychologically important situation characteristics are underdeveloped. A working model of …

Notwithstanding a recent flurry of organizational research on the construct of “situational
strength,” research on the other side of the coin—“personality strength”—has rarely been …

There is currently no consensus on how to study psychological situations, and situation
research is still riddled with problems of conceptualization (what is a situation and what is it …

The joint influence of persons and situations on behavior has long been posited by
personality and social psychological theory (Funder, 2006; Lewin, 1951). However, a lack of …

The issue of the variant vs. invariant in personality often arises in different forms of the
“person–situation” debate, which is based on a false dichotomy between the personal and …

The authors present a behavioral process model of personality that specifies explicit and
implicit aspects of the self-concept of personality as predictors of actual behavior. An …

In comparison with personality taxonomic research, there has been much less advancement
toward establishing an integrative taxonomy of psychological situation characteristics …

Positive psychology is one of the biggest growth industries in the discipline of psychology. At
the present time, the subfield of'positive education'seems poised to take the world of …

A new method for assessing situations is employed to examine the association between
situational similarity, personality, and behavioral consistency across ecologically …