Personality and Social Psychology: Towards a Synthesis

By Barbara Krahé

No person feels, thinks, or acts in the same way across a multitude of situations. Hence, predicting exactly what an individual will do in a particular situation seems impossible. However, a person′s behavior is not entirely unpredictable--it depends on the social situation and the person′s disposition. Personality and Social Psychology offers a critical introduction to recent research in the field of personality research and social behavior. Based on a concept-oriented approach, this comprehensive volume covers methodological and theoretical issues in personality research and the problems and controversies that have dominated the field in recent history. Committed to the optimistic view that progress in the field of personality can and, in fact, has profited a great deal from developments in social psychology, the volume also offers an alternative framework for personality research in modern interactionism. It discusses anxiety, emotions, and person-situation congruence; prosocial behavior; and strategies for capturing individual uniqueness. Personality and Social Psychology is essential reading for students and scholars in the fields of personality psychology, social psychology and interpersonal communication, as well as other related fields. "Krah provides a lot of ′technical′ information in a relatively small book. Her focus--personality, situation, and interaction--catalogs and assesses a variety of text and professional journal discussions, debates, and research findings (more than 600 sources listed) about such issues in the field of personality psychology as consistency, nomothetics versus idiographics, person versus situation, interactionism, biological inputs to personality, basic trait dimensions, and personality measurement. . . . Researchers, faculty, and graduate students will make the greatest use of this book." --Choice

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803987250
• ISBN13: 9780803987258
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"