Individual Differences and Dispositions
- Individual Differences- study of individual variation in personality dispositions
- Disposition- enduring, stable characteristics
- stable over time
- consistent across situations
- best way to study personality
Social Psychology
- Social Psychology- study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
- Situationism- belief that social situations have the most powerful influence on behavior
Individual Differences vs Social Psychology
- Individual Differences- focuses on how do people behave differently in the same single situation
- identify variations in people
- altruists vs nonaltruists
- Social Psychology- focuses on how most people behave similarly in the same situation
- identify variations in social setting
- Behavior is a function of both individual difference factors and social psychology factors
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