Person X Situation Interactionism

3 cr · Graduate

We will first explore research demonstrating the impact of personality and situations, separately, on behavior. We will then examine the debate that arose about whether understanding the person or the situation would have the most scientific merit. We spend the remainder (and majority) of the course discussing the theories and research that arose from that debate. The majority of this research has an interactionist perspective, taking both the person and his/her situation into account. Students may not hold credit for both PSYC 7620 and PSYC 7310 with the topic "Person X Situation Interactionism."