Lee Ross, Richard E. Nisbett: The Person and the Situation

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A groundbreaking synthesis of the central themes of social psychology and personality theory<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877228516&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="882_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The Person and the Situation</h1> <H2>Essential Contributions of Social Psychology</H2> <h3>Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-851-5 $49.95, Jun 91, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <BR> 1992 pp </P><h3 align="center"><P><font color="#996633">Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 1992</font></P> </H3> <p>In this groundbreaking synthesis of the central themes of social psychology and personality theory, Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett attempt to reconcile common sense and common experience with the empirical lessons and challenges that lie at the core of social psychology. <i>The Person and the Situation</i> seeks to provide an overview of social psychology�s primary scientific and intellectual contributions, one that serves to challenge, reform, and expand common sense. <p>Ross and Nisbett identify three contributions of social psychology that have significantly influenced the study of the individual and society: the power and subtlety of situational influences on behavior; the need to recognize the subjective nature of situational influence; and the utility of regarding both individual psyches and social groups as "tension systems." The authors show how these themes inform the study of any topic having to do with social behavior. Their highly original and penetrating analysis of how we can better understand the interaction of people and their life situations leads to new insights on how to design effective interventions that can work to enhance individual and societal functioning. <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Foreword <br>Preface <p>1. Introduction <br><I>The Lessons and Challenges of Social Psychology &#149 The Tripod on Which Social Psychology Rests &#149 Predictability and Indeterminacy &#149 The Problem of Effect Size &#149 Overview and Plan of the Book</I> <p>2. The Power of the Situation <br><I>Social Influence and Group Processes &#149 Channel Factors</I> <p>3. Construing the Social World <br><I>Subjectivist Considerations in Objective Behaviorism &#149 The Construal Question in Social Psychology &#149 The Attribution Process &#149 Failure to Allow for the Uncertainties of Construal</I> <p>4. The Search for Personal consistency <br><I>An Overview of Conventional theories of Personality &#149 The Scientific Findings and the Debate &#149 Professional Responses to the Challenge of 1968 &#149 Making Sense of "Consistency" Correlations</I> <p>5. Lay Personology and Lay Social Psychology <br><I>Qualitative Aspects of Lay Personality Theoy &#149 Quantitative Aspects of Lay Personality Theoy &#149 Lay Dispositionism and the Fundamental Attribution Error &#149 The Sources of Lay Dispositionism</I> <p>6. The Coherence of Everyday Social Experience <br><I>Scientific Disentangling versus Real-World Confounding &#149 When People Create Their Own Environments &#149 Continuity of Behavior over the Lifespan &#149 Situations, Construals, and Personality</I> <p>7. The Social Psychology of Culture <br><I>Situational Determinants of Culture &#149 Culture, Ideology, and Construal &#149 Cultures as Tension Systems &#149 Traits, Ethnicities, and the Coordinates of Individual Differences</I> <p>8. Applying Social Psychology <br><I>Methodological Lessons for Research Practitioners and Consumers &#149 When "Big"Interventions Fail &#149 When "Small" Interventions Succeed &#149 Labeling and Attribution Effects in the Classroom &#149 Subjective Perceptions and Objective Health Consequences &#149 Everyday Application of Social Psychology</I> <p>References <br>Index of Authors and Names <br>Subject Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/882_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Lee Ross</b> is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and a founder and one of the principal investigators of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation.</P></td></tr></table><table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/882_au2.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Richard E. Nisbett</b> is Theodore M. Newcomb Professor of Psychology and Director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/psycho.html" TARGET="_top">Psychology</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877228516&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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