The Psychology of Social Situations

Contents

Introduction

Part 1 The Structure of Social Situations

1 The Polish Peasant in Europe and America

2. The Structural Elements of Games

3. Making The Scene

4 Behavioral Appropriateness and Situational Constraint As Dimensions of Social Behavior

5 A Free-Response Description Approach to the Analysis of Person-Situation Interaction

6 The Goal Structure of Situations

Part 2 The Social Psychological Approach

The Perception of Social Situations

1 The Perception of Social Episodes

2 An Analysis of Situational Dimensions

3. Perceived Dimensions of Interpersonal Relations

The Response To Social Situations

1. Physiological Effects of Social Environments

2. Emotional Impact of A Task and Its Setting On Work Performance of Screeners and Non Screeners

3. Similar Situations • Similar Behaviors?

Stressful Situations

1 Social Difficulty in A Student Sample

2. Types of Stressful Situations and their Relation to Trait Anxiety and Sex

3. Anxiety: States, Traits - Situations?

Interactional Psychology

1. The Trait-Situation Controversy and the Concept of Interaction

2. The Case For Person-Situation Interactions

3 On The Future of Personality Measurement

Part 3 The Approach of Other Areas in the Social Sciences

Environmental Psychology

1 Explorations in Ecological Psychology

2. 'Situational' Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice

3 Judgements of People and their Rooms

4. Psychiatric Patients and Staff Reaction to their Physical Environment

Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology

1. The Definition of The Situation: An Analysis of the Ethnomethodological and Dramaturgical View

2. A Theory of The Definition of The Situation

3. The Dramaturgical Model

Socio-And Psycholinguistics

1. The Neglected Situation

2. The Situation: A Neglected Source of Social Class Differences in Language Use

3. Address Forms Used By Members of A Department Store

Clinical Psychology

1. Effectiveness of Situation Redefinition and Affective Isolation in Coping with Stress

2. Situational Determinants of Assertive Behaviors

3. A Situation-Specific Model For Smoking Behavior

Author Index

Subject Index