1st Edition

Toward A Psychology of Situations An Interactional Perspective

Edited By D. Magnusson, David Magnusson Copyright 1981
    474 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    Published in the year 1981, Toward a Psychology of Situations is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.

    I: Issues; 1: Problems in Environmental Analyses—An Introduction; 2: Wanted: A Psychology of Situations; II: Actual Environments and Situations; 3: Environmental Assessment and Situational Analysis; 4: Situation and Generalization in Two Behavioral Domains; 5: The Experimental Study of the Basic Features of Situations; 6: Studying Situational Dimensions: A Grand Perspective and Some Limited Empiricism; 7: Risky Situations; 8: Perceptions of and Reactions to Work Situations: Some Implications of an Action Control Approach; 9: Environment and Response; III: Perceived Situations and Environments; 10: On Meanings of Situations and Social Control of Such Meaning in Human Communication; 11: The Psychological Situation in Social-Learning Theory; 12: Knowing More Than We Can Say Leads to Saying More Than We Can Know: On Being Implicitly Informed; 13: The Importance of Cognition and Moderator Variables in Stress; 14: Structure of Situation and Action: Some Remarks on Formal Theory of Actions; 15: Perceptions of Situations: Situation Prototypes and Person-Situation Prototypes; 16: Assessing Situations by Assessing Persons; 17: Life Situations and Episodes as a Basis for Situational Influence on Action; 18: Psychological Climate: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Research; 19: The Perceived Environment in Psychological Theory and Research; IV: Person-Environment Interactions; 20: The Role of Situations in Early Psychological Development; 21: The Relation of Situations to Behavior; 22: Situational Aspects of Interactional Psychology; 23: A Model for Studying the Interaction Between the Objective Situation and a Person's Construction of the Situation; 24: Group × Place Transactions: Some Neglected Issues in Psychological Research on Settings

    Biography

    D. Magnusson, David Magnusson