• DOI:10.1177/1088868308321721
Corpus ID: 206682425

Reinvigorating the Concept of Situation in Social Psychology

@article{Reis2008ReinvigoratingTC,
  title={Reinvigorating the Concept of Situation in Social Psychology},
  author={H. Reis},
  journal={Personality and Social Psychology Review},
  year={2008},
  volume={12},
  pages={311 - 329}
}

H. Reis

Published 2008

Sociology, Medicine

Personality and Social Psychology Review

The concept of situation has a long and venerable history in social psychology. The author argues that recent approaches to the concept of situation have confused certain important elements. Herein, the author proposes that attention to three of these elements will reinvigorate the concept of situation in social psychology: (a) that the analysis of situations should begin with their objective features; (b) that situations should be conceptualized as affordances; and (c) that the interpersonal… CONTINUE READING

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