Editorial: personality and situations

Editorial: Personality and Situations

During the last few decades the personality domain has witnessed several major controversies, including the person±situation debate and the debates on accurate re ̄ection versus systematic distortion, on nomothetic versus idiographic approaches, on nature±nurture, etc. Within these controversies several sharp contrasts and pendulum movements have stood out. In particular, regarding the person±si...

Two Replicable Suppressor Situations in Personality Research.

Suppressor situations occur when the simultaneous inclusion of two predictors improves one or both validities. A common allegation is that suppressor effects rarely replicate and have little substantive import. We present substantive examples from two established research domains to counter this skepticism. In the first domain, we show how measures of guilt and shame act consistently as mutual ...

Editorial: Information Technologies for Emergency and Crisis Situations Management

Personality and perceptions of situations from the Thematic Apperception Test

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.06.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.G. Serfass). 1 For our purposes here, we shall dispense with late comedian George observation that the gla...

The key ingredients of personality traits: situations, behaviors, and explanations.

The trait and social cognitive perspectives are considered disparate approaches to understanding personality. We suggest an integrative view in which three elements derived from the social cognitive perspective (i.e., situations, behaviors, and explanations [SBEs]) form the basis of personality traits. Study 1 demonstrated strong associations between traits and SBEs across the Big Five dimensio...