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    16 Principle Factors (16 PF), personality inventory22, 526
    Abilities
      coalition partners165
    Abnormal Psychology, White19
    Abortion, attitudes372
    Abstract properties, concrete vs., of situations71–72
    Academics, multiculturalism639
    Acceptance, personality and social psychology46–48
    Accomplishment striving, work708
    Achievement
      motives, beliefs and goals301
    Action
      explanations340
      upstream impacts on196
    Activation
      cultural cognitive affective processing (C–CAPS)452–453
    Active facilitation342
    Actor effect217
    Adaptive contingent variation, social spheres172
    Adaptiveness, adaptation154
    Adaptive team leadership719
    Adolescents, attachment581
    Adult, personality change39
    Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)508
    Affect
      construction of self186
    Affect, Cognition, and Stereotyping26
    Affect-as-information hypothesis, emotion324, 328
    Affect Balance Scale, well-being598
    Affective empathy, description422
    Affective events theory, work attitudes713
    Affective priming345
    Affective processing, personality and top-down factors329–330
    Affective style
      neuroscience137
    African Americans
      Boas and biological evolution17
      civil rights movement660
      identity category194
      interracial contact559
      multiculturalism637
      oppression16
      race-based rejection sensitivity (RS-race)458
    African settings, interdependent constructions185–187, 189
    Agency, human adaptation579
    Agential behavior, helping395
    Aging, perceiver feature353
    Agreeable-dominant (AD), interpersonal circumplex450
    Agreeableness, helping411
    Agreeable-submissive (AS), interpersonal circumplex450
    Alcohol consumption, aggression423
    Aldorno, Theodor22
    Allies, collective action796
    Allport, Floyd
      social psychology73
      Social Psychology18
    Alternating biculturals632
    Alternativism, personality42
    American Psychological Association (APA)26, 151, 809
    American Psychologist824
    American society, developments16–18
    Amygdala, brain113
    Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy821
    An Atlas of Interpersonal Situations78–79, 80
    Anchoring-and-adjustment model, biases356
    Anger, asymmetric frontal cortical activity128–129
    Animalistic dehumanization341
    ANOVA model
      data analysis210
      human beings as27
      P x S framework831
    Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), control activity117, 134
    Anthropology, Yakima Native Americans17
    Antiwar activism792
    Applicability, knowledge activation452
    Approach-avoidance reactions, motives289–290
    Approach motivation, emotions323
    AREA model (attention, reaction, explanation and adaptation)607, 616
    Army Air Force, pilots19
    Aronson, Elliot27
    Artifacts, byproducts and settings, target352
    Asian Americans, race-based rejection sensitivity (RS-race)458
    Asian immigrants656
    Association for Psychological Science (APS)27
    Association for Research in Personality6, 27, 833
    Attack of 9/11, impact667
    Attention, impression formation345
    Attentional adhesion345
    Attitude strength, prediction of behavior373–374
    Attitudinal ambivalence, valence acquisition346–347
    Attribution effects, emotion328
    Attribution principle, emotion327
    Auditory cues, target352
    Australia, multiculturalism625
    Authoritarianism
      group behavior521
      group consciousness792
      research24
      social psychology22
    Authoritarian parenting22
    The Authoritarian Personality, Aldorno22
    Authority ranking, models of relationality186
    Autocorrelation225
    Automatic change processes383
    Autonomy
      self-determination theory296
    Availability, knowledge activation452
    The Averaged American, Igo15
    Aversive-arousal reduction hypothesis, help-giving399
    Aversive racism546
    Avoidance, attachment478
    Avoidant, attachment
    B = f(P,E), Lewin’s formula3, 6, 33, 74
    Baby boomers660
    Back, Kurt22
    Back to the Future, McFly’s personality448, 462
    Bales Interaction Process Analysis (IPA)100, 101
    Ballew v. Georgia768
    Banal dehumanization435
    Barker, Roger22
    Basis of control, situation dimensions500, 501
    Bavelas, Alex22
    Behavioral activation system (BAS)
      health behavior739
    Behavioral approach sensitivity, anger128
    Behavioral beliefs, term376
    Behavioral control, theory of planned behavior377
    Behavioral ecology, emotions322
    Behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
      health behavior739
    Behavioral observation
    Behavioral signature model, interactionist75–78
    Behavioral signatures, variability across situations450–451
    Behavioral variability, stability in situations448–449
    Behavior assessment
      coder computer support systems105
      Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)104
      formulating research question99
      generalizability of system101
      Interaction Process Analysis (IPA)100
      Leadership Trait Questionnaires (LTQ)100
      observation of personal living spaces (PLS)105–106
      stages of behavioral observation98
      strengths and weakness of behavior observation103
      virtual reality104
    Behavior-in-situation approach, leadership674
    Behavior therapy
      psychotherapy575
    Beliefs, achievement301
    Benedict, Ruth17
    Berscheid, Ellen21
    BIAS map, (behaviors from intergroup affect and stereotypes)342
    Bicultural identity integration (BII)
      feelings and perceptions643n.6
      high vs. low levels of635
      version 2 of scale (BIIS)634
    Bidimensional model, acculturation and multiculturalism627, 628, 630
    Bioenergetic view, emotions323
    Biological evolution, Boas17
    Biological psychology45
    Biparental care, human adaptive complex161
    Black exceptionalism hypothesis, intergroups555–556
    Blended biculturals632
    Blink, Gladwell94
    Boas, Franz, environmentalism17
    Borderline personality disorder (BPD)45
    Bottom-up approach, rejection sensitivity459
    Bounded rationality model27
    Brain
      amygdala (AMG)113
      coronal slice through113
      human adaptive complex162
      lateral aspect of right hemisphere116
      medial aspect of left hemisphere113
      medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)113
      orbital frontal cortex (OFC)113
      social neuroscience approach112
    Bridges, personality and social psychology830, 831
    Bridgman, Percy, Vienna–Circle positivism21
    Brigham, Carl16
    Brown, Roger20
    Burch v. Louisiana768
    Buss–Derkee Hostility Inventory423
    By-products, adaptation155
    Bystander intervention, experiments94
    California Psychology Inventory782
    Capacity, coalition partners164
    Carlsmith, Merrill27
    Carlson, Rae24
    Categorical outcomes, multilevel modeling247
    Categorization theory, leadership682
    Cattell, Raymond, test analyses22
    Causal effect, intentions and behavior378
    Causal history of reasons355
    Causality orientations, self-determination theory296
    Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale, well-being601
    Centering, multilevel modeling246
    Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)19
    Certainty-oriented people (COs)529
    Chinese immigrants656
    Clinical psychology45
    Closeness, social comparison166
    Coalitional psychology, humans165
    Coalitional success, human adaptive complex162
    Coder computer support systems105
    Cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS)
      antisocial behavior421
      knowledge acquisition and activation in C-CAPS452–453
      multilevel radical coefficient model (MRCM)253
      personality triad87
      study of dispositions494
    Cognitive capital, human adaptive complex161
    Cognitive dissonance theory, Festinger27
    Cognitive empathy, description422
    Cognitive flexibility, personality792
    Cognitive processes, well-being and self-reports604–605
    Cognitive Processes in Stereotyping and Intergroup Behavior26
    Cognitive psychology45
    Collaboration, personality and groups534
    Collective leadership capacity719
    Collective personality
      theory borrowing706
    Collective representations, psychology15
    Collectivism-individualism, follower and leadership680, 693–694
    College Textiles and Clothing organizations786
    Colonial mentality, concept195
    Combined territories, personality and social psychology830, 831–832
    Common-bond experience, constructions of self186
    Common ingroup identity model433
    Common sense, forensic psychology772
    Communal sharing, models of relationality186
    Communism, political pressure by McCarthy21
    Compartmentalization, bicultural identity intergration scale (BIIS)-2633–636
    Competitive altruism hypothesis404
    Competitive jungle, prejudice427
    Competitors, group members162
    Compilation, teamwork720
    Composition, teamwork720
    Comprehensive Quality of Life scale, well-being599
    Conceptual act model, emotions319
    Conceptual distinguishability, dyadic design216–217
    Conceptualization
      personality and social psychology48–49
      social sphere167
    Concrete properties, abstract vs., of situations71–72
    Conductance hypothesis, helping relations401
    Conformity, group decision-making530
    Confrontation, confessions757
    Conjoint constructions, cultural-ecological variation193
    Conscious emotional experiences326
    Conscious motives, person43
    Consistency
      eyewitness identification765
      multilevel radical coefficient model (MRCM)251–252
      similar situations75
    Construal, personality42
    Construal level theory (CLT)354
    Construct validity concept, well-being599–600
    Consumption, energy, by groups537
    Controversy, multiculturalism626
    Cooley, Charles, environmentalism16
    Coordination situations, interdependence82
    Correspondence
      outcome, and interdependence81–82
    Corticospinal inhibition, ingroup and outgroup pain428–429
    Cortisol, psychological dispositions138–139
    Cosmopolitan approach, multiculturalism626
    Cost-benefit modeling, evolutionary economics156
    Courts, forensic psychology772
    Criminal Interrogations and Confessions, manual755
    Cross-cultural variation
      cultural psychology182
    Cue utilization, target352
    Cue validity, target352
    Cultural activation, multiculturalism640–641
    Cultural anthropology, attitude assessment18
    Cultural artifacts194
    Cultural blendedness, bicultural identity integration scale (BIIS)-2633–636
    Cultural cognitive-affective processing system (C-CAPS)
      knowledge acquisition and activation452–453
      organization453
    Cultural diversity, multiculturalism626
    Cultural encapsulation, acculturation629
    Cultural frame-switching (CFS), acculturation628–629
    Cultural harmony, bicultural identity integration scale (BIIS)-2633–636
    Cultural practices194
    Cultural variation
      cultural-ecological variation193
    Cummings, E. E., emotions320
    Cumulative continuity, interaction26
    Cyberspace, target352
    Dangerous world, prejudice427
    Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals772
    Deactivation
      attachment theory470
      exploration behavioral system473
      power behavioral system477
      scale items for behavioral system479, 482
    Decategorization processes554
    Defensive helping405
    Defensive pessimism, self-regulation302
    Defensive projection, perception350
    Degree of interdependence, situation dimensions500, 501
    Degree of uncertainty, situation dimensions500, 501
    De La Beckwith, Byron, killing Evers545
    Delay-of-gratification, situations82–83
    Demands-abilities, person-job fit708
    Democrats, ideology813
    Density distributions, states52–53
    Departments, personality and social psychology835
    Dependency/risk regulation, person-by-situation approach503–505
    Depression, resting frontal asymmetric activity127–128
    Descriptive approach, theory-driven vs.72–73
    Deutsch, Morton22
    Developmental antecedents, help-giving398
    Developmental stage, life experiences789–790
    Developmental systems theory, evolution157–158
    Diagnostic action research806
    Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)69
    Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edition (DSM–V)38, 574
    Digital recordings, behavior105
    Dilthey, Wilhelm14
    Disconnectedness, antisocial behavior421
    Discrimination
      helping relations across racial boundaries406–407
      personal experiences790
    Discriminative facility, research459
    Disjoint constructions, cultural-ecological variation193
    Disorder-based perspectives, person35, 44–45
    Dissonance theory27
    Distance, bicultural identity integration scale (BIIS)-2633, 634
    Distinguishable dyads, actor-partner independence model (APIM)219–221
    Division 8 of the American Psychological Association (APA)26
    Dominating research themes24
    Down-regulation, emotion129
    Dual-judgment model356
    Dynamic construction, personal identity197–198
    Dynamic interaction, personality psychology25
    Dynamic interactionism, person and situation5
    Dynamic Theory of Personality, Lewin13
    Dysfunction, sexual behavioral system475
    Earthquakes, impact667
    Economy of action, emotions322
    Education
      communism and McCarthy21
      group consciousness and collective action798
      personality and social psychology836
      work experience791
    Ego-defensive function382
    Electroencephalography (EEG), neuroimaging115, 127
    Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)104
    Embodies cognitive capital, human adaptive complex161
    Emergent leadership, study682
    Emergent third culture, multiculturalism640
    Emotional intelligence (EI)353
    Empathic Quotient423
    Empathic Responsiveness Questionnaire (ERQ)424
    Empathy-altruism hypothesis, help-giving399–400
    Empirical action research806
    Empirical distinguishability, dyadic design216–217
    Employee engagement, work712
    Energy, emotions323
    Energy consumers, group537
    Environmentalism, replacing Social Darwinism17
    Environmental issues, attitudes372
    Equality matching, models of relationality184–185
    Equal status, situation for intergroups552–553
    Eriksen Flankers Task117
    Essentialist thinking, evolution theory153
    Estrogen, human environment159
    Ethnicity, personality and social psychology23–24
    Ethnic nationalism242
    European Association of Personality Psychology6, 27, 821, 833
    European Association of Social Psychology6, 27, 821, 833
    European Journal of Personality25, 834
    European Journal of Social Psychology25, 834
    European Review of Social Psychology25
    Evaluative conditioning (EC), valence acquisition346
    Evaluative priming345
    Evers, Medgar, civil rights545
    Evocation, term460
    Evoked culture171
    Evolutionary processes, democratic society16
    Evolution-based theories, motive classes291–292
    Exchange situations, interdependence82
    Expectancy-value model, attitude376
    Experiences in Close Relationships inventory (ECR)478
    Experimental action research806
    Experimental psychology, Harvard20
    Experimental Psychology, Woodworth and Schlosberg315
    Experimental Social Psychology, Murphy and Murphy13–14
    Explicit impressions, term338
    Exploration behavioral system473, 479
    Explorations in Personality, Murray19
    Extensive cooperation, human adaptive complex161–162
    Extraversion529
    Extrinsic motivation, self-determination theory295–296
    Facebook, behavior105
    Facial Action Coding System (FACS)100, 102
    Facilitation, active and passive342
    Factional influence529
    False consciousness, concept22
    Fantasy realization theory, goals300
    Feature utilization68
    Felt security, attachment system471
    Festinger, Leon22
    Field theory, situation74
    Fitness, variations in173
    Fragmented pluralism approach, multiculturalism626–627
    Frankfurt School, Marxists22
    Freedom House Ratings, multilevel analysis255
    Frenkel-Brunswik, Else22
    Freud, Sigmund
      emotion regulation129
      personality layers15
    Frijda, Nico25
    Frye test, expert testimony772
    Function, adaptation154
    Functional design, concept155
    Functional leadership theory, team leadership718
    Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), brain mapping112, 115, 124
    Functional projection, perception350
    Fundamental attribution error (FAE)354
    Funding agencies, personality and social psychology834–835
    Galton, Francis, social factors16
    Gene-environment interaction, well-being611
    General Social Survey, multilevel analysis254
    Generation, divorce654
    Generation-since-immigration654
    Generativity
      caregiving behavior474
      collective action792
    Genetic determinism, Darwinism157
    Genetic program, concept157
    Gestalt psychology, attitude assessment18
    Gibsonian approach, perception of situations70–71
    Global cultures, multiculturalism640
    Global/local processing style model (GLOMO)345
    Goddard, Henry16
    Go/No-Go Associations Test (GNAT)348
    Go/No-Go task117
    Google Scholar13, 26
    Grant Study, well-being602
    Gratification, ability to delay82–83
    Gratitude, helping relations401
    Greatest Generation, and Baby Boom660
    Group identification, self-categorization650
    Group maintenance
      integration of new members533
    Group membership
      collective action based on voluntary796
    Group-oriented collectivists, interdependent constructions186–187
    Group personality composition (GPC)525
    Guilford, J. P.19
    Guilt, emotion324
    Habitual behavior, novel vs.96
    Habitus, selfways as190
    Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, plan of action6–8
    Handbook of Personality Psychology6, 24
    Handbook of Social Psychology6, 26
    Handbooks6
    Harvard
      personality and social psychology20
      Social Relations Department20, 835
    Harvard Psychological Clinic18
    Health, personality41
    Health behavior
      implications for interventions735
      interplay between moderators and mediators733, 734
      matching frames to perception of behavior738
      matching intervention strategies to people735–745
      measurement-of-mediation approach737
      morbidity and mortality rates729
      person x intervention strategy (P x IS)731, 736
      person x situation (P x S) perspective731, 743
      principles in social and personality psychology730
      processes underlying matching interventions744–745
      theory of planned behavior (TPB)731
      transtheoretical model (TTM)730, 742
    Health psychology46
    Hedonic treadmill theory, well-being613–614
    Help, characteristics of402
    Helper
      characteristics of402
    Herskovits, Melville17
    Heuristic-systematic model379
    Hidden profile effect, group discussion536
    Historical generation, immigration654
    Hitler, Adolf, personality evaluation19
    Holidays, official194
    Holistic tendencies, constructions of self185
    Homburger, Erik18
    Human adaptation, behavior579
    Human Development Index (HDI), United Nations254–255
    Humanitarian intervention, poor16
    Humanization, self121
    Human sexuality, social constructionism809–810
    Hurricane Katrina, impact667
    Hyperactivation
      attachment theory470
      exploration behavioral system473
      power behavioral system477, 485
      scale items for behavioral system479
    Hypothesis testing, social neuroscience113–114
    Hypothetical construct, subjective well-being600
    Ickes, William26
    Ideological attitudes
      attachment, and prejudice427
    Imagined community, collective self185
    Immersive virtual environment technologies (IVET)104
    Implicit goals, automatic processes and302–303
    Implicit impressions, term338
    Impulse expression, personality792
    Incidental effects, adaptation155
    Inclusive fitness hypothesis407
    Indistinguishable, group members212
    Indistinguishable dyads, actor-partner independence model (APIM)218–219
    Individual, discontinuity with groups524
    Individual differences, multilevel radical coefficient model (MRCM)252
    Individual level. acculturation and multiculturalism627, 628, 630
    Industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology45–46
    Informant report, assessing behavior96–97
    Information certainty, interdependence81, 83
    Infrahumanization, dehumanization measure434
    Ingroup love, vs. outgroup hate546
    Injustice, perceived783
    Input-process-output, team effectiveness720
    Insecurity
    Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan20
    Institute of Personality, Assessment and Research (IPAR), University of California20
    Integration
      levels between personality and social psychology47
      new members into groups533
      personality and social psychology46–48
    Integrative approach, benefits for well-being614
    Intelligence testing, developments16–17
    Intentional behaviors340
    Interactional continuity, style26
    Interactional strategy65
    Interactionism
      integrated, dynamic and situated25
    Interactionist views, persons and situations4–5
    Interaction Process Analysis (IPA), behavior100, 101
    Interactions, Person x Situation (P x S)66
    Interaction signatures, relationships499
    Interactive pluralism approach, multiculturalism627
    Interdependence theory (IT)
      An Atlas of Interpersonal Situations78–79
      basis of interdependence82
      groups, organizations and cultures85–86
      mutuality of outcome interdependence81
      outcome interdependence81
      situations70
      study of dispositions494
    Intergroup
      intergroup helping as status relations model (IHSR)405
      situational conditions552
    Internalization, self-determination theory296
    Internal working models, behavior469
    International Social Survey Program (ISSP)243
    Interpersonal circle77
    Interpersonal circumplex model, situation-behavior450
    Interpersonal dimension, person- situation448
    Interpersonal forces, behavioral field578
    Interpersonal processes, social and personality psychology209
    Interpersonal rejection
      personality vulnerabilities590
    Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes (IRGP)209–210
    Interpersonal situations, types458
    Interpersonal theory (IT), groups518
    Interpretation
      incorporating, and meaning48
    Interpretative process, whole trait theory53, 54
    Intersectional analysis, immigration experience657–659
    Intra-individual variation, well-being601–603
    Intrinsic motivation, self-determination theory295–296
    Invention of Society, Moscovici15
    Isolation, confessions757
    Item response theory (IRT), well-being600–601
    Iterative processing model, attitudes321
    Jews, dehumanization434
    Job involvement, work714
    Johnson v. Louisiana768
    Journal of Abnormal Psychology (JAP)23, 574
    Journal of Applied Psychology715
    Journal of Personality577
    Journal of Research in Personality49
    Judging others, impression356
    Judgmental biases, well-being606
    Jung, Carl15
    Juvenile dependence, human adaptive complex161
    Kagan, Jerome20
    Kahneman, Daniel, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics28
    Kelley, Harold, ANOVA model27
    Kelman, Herbert20
    Klineberg, Otto17
    Kluckhohn, Clyde20
    Knowledge function382
    Kroeber, Alfred17
    Labor movement, activism659
    Language dominance528
    Late positive potential (LPP), oddball task123–124
    Latino immigrants, social conditions656–657
    Leader-follower relationship
      leadership effectiveness674, 687
    Leader-member exchange (LMX)
      leadership effectiveness674, 687
    Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)101
    Leadership categorization theory690
    Leadership Trait Questionnaires (LTQ)100
    Least preferred coworker (LPC), leadership effectiveness677–678
    Legal system
    Levinson, Daniel22
    Lexical hypothesis, personality447
    Life experiences
      collective action794
      group consciousness794
      group consciousness and collective action789–791
      individual differences794
    Lippitt, Ronald22
    Low frequency behaviors96
    McCarthy, Joseph, communism in education21
    McDougall, William16
    MacKinnon, Donald, Institute of Personality, Assessment and Research (ISAR)20
    Major histocompatibility complex (MHC), genes172–173
    Mann review, groups520
    Many-perceivers, one-target (MP1T) design, group232
    Marital research, stability459
    Market pricing, models of relationality184
    Martyr’s behavior529
    Marxists, Frankfurt School22
    Maslow, Abraham23
    Master identities, content of191
    Mead, George Herbert16
    Mead, Margaret17
    Meaning
      incorporating interpretation and48
    Mechanism, brain115
    Mechanistic dehumanization341
    Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
    Mediation model, leadership681
    Medical students, attitudes toward elderly429
    Members, integration of new, in groups533
    Membership, low-status group790
    Mendelian gene theory153
    Mental interactions73
    Methodological integration, well-being610–612
    Mind-set theory of action299
    Minimization, confessions757, 759
    Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)17, 601
    Mirror neurons, empathy121
    Mischel, Walter26
    Model of ambivalence-induced discomfort (MAID)346–347
    MODE model, attitude-behavior372
    Monoculturalism626
    Montagu, Ashley17
    Mood effects, well-being605
    Morale, social psychology20
    Morality, evolutionary perspective170
    Morbidity rates, health729
    Mortality rates, health729
    Mortality salience (MS)
      social psychology581
    Moscovici, Serge15
    Mosteller, Frederick20
    Motivational process, whole trait theory53
    Motive profile approach, leadership677
    Multicultural, term625
    Multilevel modeling (MLM)
      applications in personality and social psychology251–256
      cross-cultural research242
      data analytic approach210
      differences across persons241
      levels of analysis240
      national identification and anti-immigrant prejudice243
      persons nested in cultures or nations250–251
      persons nested in dyads or groups250
      persons nested within groups242
      situations or contexts nested in persons249–250
      testing distinguishability in dyadic design216–217
      within-person variability241
    Multilevel random coefficient model (MRCM)
      categorical outcomes247
      integrating personality and social psychology249–251
      multilevel mediation247
      multilevel structural equation modeling (ML-SEM)247–248
      nonlinearity247
      personality or within persons processes251–252
      statistical analysis240
    Multilevel structural equation modeling (ML–SEM)247–248, 256
    Multiple inference model355
    Multistate-multitrait-multiconstruct model, well-being600
    Murder, antisocial behavior420
    Murphy, Gardner, Experimental Social Psychology13–14
    Murray, Henry
      academic psychology15
      Explorations in Personality601
      personality psychology18
      stimulus situation73
    Mutual acceptance, personality and social psychology46–48
    Mutual constitution
      cultural psychology182
      social interaction459
    Mutual differentiation model433
    Mutuality of dependence, situation dimensions500, 501
    Naive realism183
    National Institutes of Health834
    Nationality, ethnic vs. civic243
    National Science Foundation835
    Natural kinds, emotion318
    Natural science, Allport18
    The Nature of Prejudice, Allport13, 18
    Needs-supplies fit, person-job fit708
    Negative affect (NA)37, 136
    Negative frequency-dependent selection, genes172–173
    Negativity, person vs. situation24
    Negotiation, social value orientation523
    Nested data
      multilevel analysis243
    Netherlands, multiculturalism625
    New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina667
    Nigrescence, politicized group identification785–786
    Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Kahneman28
    No-fault divorce652
    Nominal situations vs. psychological71
    Nonindependence, definition211
    Nonlinearity, multilevel modeling247
    Normative beliefs, term376
    Normative parameters, behavioral systems468–469
    Norms
      evolutionary perspective170
    North American experimental psychology27
    Novel behavior, vs. habitual96
    Obama, Barack, multiculturalism623
    Obedience, behavior94
    Obedience experiments, affordance68
    Obesity, health729
    Objective features vs. perceived features of situations70–71
    Observation
      strengths and weakness of behavior103
    Occupational psychology702
    Office of Strategic Services (OSS)19
    Official holidays194
    Olfaction and hormone effects, target352
    One-perceiver, many-targets (1PMT) design, group232
    One-with-many design (OWM), group research232–234
    Operationalization, multicultural identity630–636
    Optimism, activism793
    Orbital frontal cortex (OFC)
    Orchestration, genetic program157
    Organizational behavior702
    Organizations
      levels of analysis240
    Outcomes
      predicting important life38
    Outgroup hate, ingroup love vs.546
    Outliers, Gladwell94
    Pair-bonding, evolutionary perspective169–170
    Parental divorce, influence on children651
    Parsons, Talcott20
    Participant action research806
    Partner effect217
    Passive facilitation342
    Pathogens, evolutionary perspective171
    Patient x treatment matching, health behavior742–744
    Peace, Great Depression19
    Perceived features, objective vs., of situations70–71
    Perceived organizational support, work712, 714
    Perceiver effect234
    Perceiver variance235
    Permeability, regions577
    Person See also Traits
      approaches to self279
      comparing perspectives45
      conceptions of7
      current knowledge about traits35
      interaction with situations4–5
      multilevel radical coefficient model (MRCM)251–252
      nested in dyads and small groups250
      person x situation interactionism74–75
      rapid growth and opportunities for integration33–34
      relationship of personality to social psychology fields45–49
      trait developments of decade36–41
    Personal Data Sheet, Woodworth17
    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin26, 834
    Personality and Social Psychology Review26, 834
    Personality at the Crossroads74
    Personality disorders, characteristics35, 44–45
    Personality Inventory
      16 Principle Factors (16 PF)22
      Bernreuter17
    Personality Processes and Individual Differences (PPID)209–210
    Personality psychologists3
      group identification and self-categorization650
      individual characteristics14
      integration of, and social psychology46
      mutual acceptance of social and46–48
      perceived crisis24
      relationship to social psychology fields45–49
      research4
      social psychology venturing into5
    Personality signatures450
    Personality systems interaction theory, goals299
    Personality testing, developments16–17
    Personal Living Space Cue Inventory (PLSCI)105–106
    Personal living spaces (PLSs), observation105–106
    Personal moderators, situations and behavior4
    Personal norms, help-giving397
    The Person and the Situation65
    Person effects, situation effects vs.25
    PERSON model, accuracy349
    Person models, describing others343
    Personology Society, Carlson24
    Person-situation debate
      Person x Situation (P x S) interactions66
    Person-situation interaction
      social psychology25
    Person variables, term67
    Person x intervention strategy (P x IS), health behavior731, 736
    Person x situation (P x S) perspective, health behavior731, 743
    Pessimism, defensive302
    Pettigrew, Thomas F., multilevel modeling239–240
    P-factor analysis, well-being602
    Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale, well-being598–599
    Philosophies of Human Nature scale522
    Phylogenetic tree158
    Political activism, seeking social change659–663
    Politicization, low-status group membership790
    Population thinking, evolution theory153
    Positive affect (PA)37
    Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), well-being599
    Positron emission tomography (PET), cerebral blood flow118
    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
      survivor syndrome665
    Poverty, Great Depression19
    Pragmatic accuracy349
    Pragmatic response, adaptation158
    Precaution adoption process model (PAPM), behavior change730, 735, 741, 742, 746
    Precipitating situations, interactional strategy495, 496
    Preformationism158
    Prefrontal cortex (PFC)
      asymmetries associated with emotion and motivation127–129
    Prevention-focused tendencies, construction of self186
    Prisoner Dilemma Paradigm context432
    Prisoner’s dilemma game529
    Procedural priming345
    Process dissociation procedure (PDP)347–348
    Professional associations, personality and social psychology5–6
    Professional societies, social policy820–821
    Promotion focus, power476
    Proximate causation, evolutionary psychology156–157
    Psychological dispositions, hormones and138–139
    Psychological distance, impression354
    Psychological immune systems, evolutionary perspective171
    Psychological Science in Court: Beyond Common Knowledge, Borgida and Fiske772
    Psychological situations, nominal vs.71
    Psychopathology
      personality and social behavior574
      research and theory583
      social psychology and575
    Psychotherapy, behavior therapy575
    Punishment, justification538n.5
    Puppet Procedure, empathy423
    Quarrelsome-dominant (QD), interpersonal circumplex450
    Quarrelsome-submissive (QS), interpersonal circumplex450
    Race-based rejection sensitivity model (RS-race)457–458, 460
    Racial boundaries, helping relations across406–407
    Racial segregation16, 130
    Random error process, whole trait theory53
    Realistic accuracy model (RAM)349
    Realistic threat vs. symbolic threat551
    Recapitulation, dispositions and behavior375, 379
    Reciprocal altruism409
    Reciprocal design, group232
    Regulatory focus theory (RFT)
    Regulatory forces, behavioral field578
    Reid, John E., lie detection755
    Relationality, independent construction of self184–185
    Relational schemas, personality dynamics454–455
    Relational signatures, attachment507
    Relationship effect234
    Relative deprivation theory, group consciousness and collective action786–788
    Relevance, perception of motivational125
    Reliability, training and behavior assessment102–103
    Repetitive priming345
    Research, personality and social psychology4
    Research question, behavior assessment99
    Resource-holding power (RHP)476
    Resource mobilization theory, social movements790–791
    Reward structures, social policy822
    Reynolds, Katherine25
    Riesman, David20
    Right to Life, organization786
    Right wing authoritarianism (RWA)
      group consciousness792
    Right-wing conservative, collective action797
    Risk, group decision-making531
    Risk regulation
      dynamics of, in relationships280
    Riverside Behavioral Q-sort (RBQ), observation system100, 101, 102
    Riverside Situational Q-Sort70
    “Robbers Cave” study, outgroup competition82, 94
    Rogers, Carl23
    Rorschach test, well-being601
    Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory (RSEI)266
    Ross, Edward16
    Rule interdependent, interdependence theory80
    Sadness, emotions323
    Safety, attachment behavioral system471–473
    Salience, group membership in intergroup contact553–558
    Sanford, Nevitt22
    Sapir, Edward17
    Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), well-being599, 601
    Scherer, Klaus25
    Scholarly journals6
    Science, forensic psychology772
    Science and Human Behavior, Skinner519
    Secondary adaptation155
    Secondary strategies, attachment470
    Second Step: A Violence Prevention Program424
    Secure-base script, behavior469
    Seeing groups, social categories130
    Segmented assimilation556
    Segregation
      cross-group friendship558
      racism and social policy16
    Selective prediction, term735
    Self-categorization
      helping relations405
      social identity and650
    Self-categorization theory (SCT)
    Self-compassion272
    Self-concept clarity, social interactions461
    Self-determination theory
      causality orientations296
      internalization, autonomy and self-regulation296
    Self determination theory (SDT), motivation and person43–44
    Self-monitoring
      adaptive contingent variation172
      group maintenance533
    Self-referential perception, simulation theory and355–356
    Self-reports
    Self-selection, environment550
    Self-worth, relationship-specific461
    Semantic priming345
    Sensitivity, caregiving behavior474
    Sexual Behavioral System scale484
    Sexual minorities
      multiculturalism641
    Shoda, Yuichi26
    Signature, term76
    Silent Generation660
    Silent majority784
    Simmel, George15
    Simulation theory, self-referential perception of others355–356
    Situational attributions, experience of self185
    Situational context, behavior77–78
    Situational determinants
      interpersonal and intergroup helping411
    Situationalism, social psychology14
    Situational moderators, personality and social behavior4
    Situational variability, self-esteem273–278
    Situation effects, person effects vs.25
    Situation interactions, personality by331
    Snyder, Mark26
    Social, definition15
    Social adjustive function382
    Social behavior
      interactional approach494
      situationist approach395
    Social bonds, dynamics of self-esteem280
    Social cognition theory, behavioral control377
    Social-cognitive perspective
      strengths50
      trait perspective and50
    Social cognitive transference, impressions346
    Social constructionism, social policy809–810
    Social constructivist, personality447
    Social coordination, situation and behavior84–85
    Social Darwinism
      environmentalism replacing17
      social psychology16
    Social dominance theory (SDT), prejudice549–550
    Social exchange model, conformity530
    Social exclusion, helping408
    Social experiences, behavior changing over469–470
    Social information processing, work attitudes712–713
    Social Issues and Policy Review821
    Socially undesirable behaviors96
    Social networking, behavior105
    Social order15
    Social outcome, emotion330
    Social psychologists3
      attitudes40
      cognitive perspectives on person42–43
      defining situation73
      integration of personality and46
      morale and attitudes20
      motivational perspectives44
      mutual acceptance of personality and46–48
      personality and behavior447
      recognizing included concerns56
      relationship of personality to45–49
      research4
      trait perspectives41
    Social Psychology, Allport18
    Social Psychology and Personality Science27, 834
    Social Psychology Network, training822
    The Social Psychology of Groups86
    Social Relations Department
      interdisciplinary scholarship20–21
    Social relations model (SRM)
    Social responsibility, help-giving397
    Social situation, persons and situations14
    Social sphere
      adaptive contingent variation172
    Social value orientation (SVO), group behavior522–523
    Social work, political bias21
    Societal level, acculturation and multiculturalism627, 628, 630
    Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)6, 26, 820–821
    Society for Personology833
    Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)19, 821
    Society of Experimental Social Psychology6, 27, 833
    Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)833
    Socratic effect, term380
    Spandrels, adaptation155
    Special design, concept155
    Specialization, social comparisons and166–167
    Spencer, Herbert16
    Spontaneous inferences, behaviors347
    Spontaneous trait inferences (STIs)347
    Spontaneous trait transference (STT)347
    Stability-inducing process, whole trait theory53
    State affect, asymmetric frontal activity128
    States, density distributions of52–53
    Statistical interactionism, person and situation5
    Statistical tool, multilevel analysis256–257
    Status
      helper-recipient relations404
    Stereotype content model (SCM)342
    Stereotyping
      antisocial behavior420
      outgroup member430
    Stern, Wilhelm, holistic perspective18
    Stimuli, emotions323
    Stimulus situation73
    Stouffer, Samuel20
    Strange Situation, assessment procedure477
    Strategic helping406
    Strength model, regulatory control82–83
    Stress, eyewitness identifications762
    Stroop color naming task117
    Stroop task, control135
    Stroop test, emotions323
    Structural equation modeling (SEM), well-being600
    Subjective norm, theory of planned behavior376–377
    Subjectivism, social psychology14
    Superordinate identities, intergroups555–556
    Support Our Soldiers (SOS)792
    Survivor syndrome665
    Symbolic threat, realistic vs.551
    SYMLOG (System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups)20, 100, 101
    Sympathy, empathy and perspective-taking427
    System justification theory (SJT), group hierarchy550
    Tajfel, Henri, social identity theory (SIT)25
    Target effect234
    Target variance235
    Teaching, personality and social psychology836
    Team transactive memory, teamwork721
    Temporal process, whole trait theory53
    Territories, combined, personality and social psychology830, 831–832
    Terror management, social psychology581
    Terror management theory, self-esteem276–277
    Test gap, domination200
    Theoretical integrations, well-being612–614
    Theoretic-empirical response, adaptation158
    Theory borrowing
      organizational psychology and practice of703–704
    Theory-driven approaches, descriptive vs.72–73
    Theory of planned behavior (TPB)
      intentions and behavior378
      perceived behavioral control377
    Thibaut, John22
    Third culture, emergent640
    Thomas, W. I., personality and situation16
    Threat, realistic vs. symbolic551
    The Tipping Point, Gladwell94
    Top-down approach, rejection sensitivity459
    Trace measures, assessing behavior96–97
    Trait activation theory, organizational psychology706, 708–709
    Trait judgments, accuracy in349
    Trait relevance, situation683, 689
    Traits See also Person
      adulthood personality change39
      behavioral genetics and genetics38–39
      cross-cultural validity of Big Five37
      current knowledge about35
      explanatory and descriptive51
      improving measurement37
      predicting important life outcomes38
      prediction of general outcomes38
      processes and mechanisms underlying40–41
      processes underlying54
      schematicity369
      social psychology41
      specific and important39
      target and observer agreement39
      understudies, of groups526
    Transfer of attitudes recursively (TAR) model347
    Transmission gap, attachment487
    Transtheoretical model (TTM)385, 730
    Trigger of thought, emotion as326
    Tversky, Amos28
    Ultimate causation, evolutionary psychology156–157
    Uncertainty orientation (UO), groups529
    Unconscious motives, person43
    Unintentional behaviors340
    United Nations, Human Development Index (HDI)254–255
    Universality, self-determination theory296–297
    University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Personality, Assessment, and Research (IPAR)20
    University of Michigan
      Institute for Social Research (ISR)20
    University of Minnesota, personality and social programs21
    University of Virginia, psychology21
    Utilitarian function382
    Valuation rules, interdependence theory79
    Value-as-a-moderator mode, subjective well-being612–613
    Value-expressive function382
    Variability
      behavior95
      cross-situational448
    Variance components, multilevel radical coefficient model (MRCM)251–252
    Vienna-circle positivism, operational definitions21
    Vietnam War, opposition659
    Virtual reality, behavior assessment104
    Visual cues, target features351
    Vogel, Ezra20
    Volunteer process model409
    Wainwright v. Witt768
    Watson, John, behaviorist manifesto17
    Weapons, eyewitness identifications762
    Weber, Max15
    WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich and Democratic societies), social policy811, 823
    West India, migration657
    White, Robert W., Abnormal Psychology19
    Whole trait theory
      complementary strengths50
      Density Distributions approach52–53
      fitting two parts of traits together51
      producing Big Five55
    Williams v. Florida768
    Windelband, Wilhelm, goals of scientific work14
    Within-person variability, multilevel analysis241
    Wizards, lie detection756
    Women
      activism of rights792
      African American oppression and16
      Women’s Movement782
    Working memory capacity (WMC), perceiver feature353
    World Values Scale, well-being598
    World Values Survey, multilevel analysis254
    World War I17
    World wars, multilevel analysis255
    Wundt, Wilhelm, natural science and human science14–15
    Yakima Native Americans, anthropology and psychology17
    YouTube, behavior105
    Zander, Alvin22
    Zero acquaintance, perception338
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