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The Psychology of Social Situations

Selected Readings

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1981
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Adrian Furnham, Michael Argyle
  • Language: English

The Psychology of Social Situations: Selected Readings is a collection of selected readings on the psychology of social situations. The reasons for the interest in social… Read more

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The Psychology of Social Situations: Selected Readings is a collection of selected readings on the psychology of social situations. The reasons for the interest in social situations and why the social situation should be considered as a unit of psychological research are discussed, along with the nature of the social environment and major trends in social psychology. The methods of analysis and the relevance or application of a psychology of social situations are also outlined. Comprised of 31 chapters, this book begins with a detailed account of a situation involving three kinds of data: the objective conditions under which the individual or society has to act; the preexisting attitudes of the individual or the group which at the given moment have an actual influence upon his behavior; the definition of the situation, that is, the more or less clear conception of the conditions and consciousness of the attitudes. Subsequent chapters deal with the structural elements of games; the specific relationships between physical environment and social behavior; perceived dimensions of interpersonal relations; social determinants of assertive behavior; and the effectiveness of situation redefinition and affective isolation in coping with stress. This monograph will be of value to psychologists and social scientists interested in the psychology of social situations from a broad perspective, as well as to advanced undergraduates and graduates in the social sciences and related fields.

Table of 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 Psychounguistics

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1981
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Adrian Furnham

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Psychology, University of London