The Oxford Handbook of Psychological Situations
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Author 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.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This volume investigates the psychological assessment of situations to determine how environmental contexts influence human personality, emotion, and behavior. Edited by David C. Funder, John F. Rauthmann, and Ryne Sherman, the text compiles contributions from leading researchers to establish a formal framework for situational psychology. It synthesizes historical perspectives with contemporary empirical data to define how situations function as the primary context for human action.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Historical reviews of situational research
- Theoretical frameworks for defining psychological situations
- Methodological approaches for assessing environmental impact
- Empirical applications in personality and social psychology
Scope Limits
- Does not cover clinical diagnostic manuals or therapeutic interventions
- Focuses primarily on psychological research rather than sociological or anthropological situational analysis
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts identify this volume as a foundational reference for researchers and graduate students in personality and social psychology. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the comprehensive nature of the contributions.
Page Count:
632
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190263350
ISBN-13:
9780190263355
Psychology
Reference
Academic
Personality Psychology
