Research Catalog

Title

Toward a psychology of situations : an interactional perspective / edited by David Magnusson.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

Magnusson, David.

Description

x, 464 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Personality and situation > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers presented at a conference on interactional psychology, held June 16-22, 1979, in Stockholm.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I: Issues -- Problems in environmental analyses--An introduction / David Magnusson -- Wanted: A psychology of situations / David Magnusson -- Part II: Actual environments and situations -- Environmental assessment and situational analysis /Kenneth H. Craik -- Situation and generalization in two behavioral domains / Donald W. Fiske -- The experimental study of the basic features of situations / Michael Argyle -- Studying situational dimensions: a grand perspective and some limited empiricism / Jack Block and Jeanne H. Block -- Risky situations / Richard H. price -- Perceptions of and reactions to work situations: some implications of an action control approach / Winfried Hacker -- Environment and response / Gosta Carlsson -- Part III: Perceived situations and environments -- On meanings of situations and social control of such meaning in human communication / Ragnar Rommetveit -- The psychological situation in social-learning theory / Julian B. Rotter -- Knowing more than we can say leads to saying more than we can know: on being implicitly informed / Kenneth S. Bowers -- The importance of cognition and moderator variables in stress / Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason -- Structure of situation and action: some remarks on formal theory of action / Maria Nowakowska -- Perceptions of situations: situational prototypes and person-situation prototypes / Nancy Cantor -- Assessing situations by assessing persons / Daryl J. Bem -- Life situations and episodes as a basis for situational influence on action / Lennart Sjoberg -- Psychological climate: theoretical perspectives and empirical research / Lawrence R. James, S.B. Sells -- The perceived environment in psychological theory and research / Richard Jessor -- Part IV: Person-environment interactions -- The role of situations in early psychological development / J. McVicker Hunt -- The relations of situations to behavior / Larence A. Pervin -- Situational aspects of interactional psychology / Norman S. Endler -- A model for studying the interaction between the objective situation and a person's construction of the situation / Lars Nystedt -- Group X place transactions: Some neglected issues in psychological research and settings / Daniel Stokols.

ISBN

• 0898590612
• 9780898590616

LCCN

80028493

OCLC

• ocm07173015
• 7173015
• SCSB-51058

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library