A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.

@article{Mischel1995ACS,
  title={A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.},
  author={W. Mischel and Y. Shoda},
  journal={Psychological review},
  year={1995},
  volume={102 2},
  pages={
          246-68
        }
}
  • W. Mischel, Y. Shoda
  • Published 1995
  • Medicine, Psychology
  • Psychological review
    • A theory was proposed to reconcile paradoxical findings on the invariance of personality and the variability of behavior across situations. For this purpose, individuals were assumed to differ in (a) the accessibility of cognitive-affective mediating units (such as encodings, expectancies and beliefs, affects, and goals) and (b) the organization of relationships through which these units interact with each other and with psychological features of situations. The theory accounts for individual… CONTINUE READING
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