1st Edition

Personality in the Social Process

By J. Aronoff, J. P. Wilson Copyright 1985
    408 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    408 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    First published in 1985. This book presents a new way to ask an old question. Many fields have considered the nature of the influence that members of a group exert on the course of social events. Social science provides another way to examine this issue. Moreover, social science has a particular strength: It helps us to phrase questions more precisely than before, it encourages us to follow a line of rea­soning systematically, and it requires us to evaluate our ideas in light of a par­ticular kind of evidence. The authors want to use these strengths to explore systematically the ways that factors in the person and in the environment to­gether may shape the emergence of social behavior.

    Preface, PART I. A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO PERSONALITY IN THE SOCIAL PROCESS, Chapter 1. Personality in the Social Process, Chapter 2. The Personological Bases of Social Responsiveness, Chapter 3. Dimensions of the Person, Chapter 4. Dimensions of the Situation, Chapter 5. Interactional Patterns: A Model of the Person in the Situation, PART II. THE INITIAL SOCIAL RESPONSE, Chapter 6. Social Perception, Chapter 7. Information Processing, Chapter 8. Interpersonal Attraction, PART III. COMPLEX FORMS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION, Chapter 9. The Initiation-Concurrence Dimension of Group Process, Chapter 10. The Affiliative-Disaffiliative Dimension of Group Process, Chapter 11. Negotiation Processes, Chapter 12. Group Structure, PART IV. THE OUTCOME OF GROUP PROCESS: TESTING THE MODEL OF THE PERSON IN THE SITUATION, Chapter 13. The Performance of Individuals in Groups, Chapter 14. Epilogue, References, Author Index, Subject Index

    Biography

    Joel Arnoff Michigan State University, John P. WIlson Cleveland State University