Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations

Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations presents major innovations and contributions on the topic, promoting deeper integration, cross-pollination of ideas across diverse academic disciplines, and the facilitation of the development of practical applications such as matching people to jobs, understanding decision making, and predicting how a group of individuals will interact with one another. The book is organized around two overarching and interrelated themes, with the first focusing on assessing the person and the situation, covering methodological advances and techniques for inferring and measuring characteristics, and showing how they can be instantiated for measurement and predictive purposes.

The book's second theme presents theoretical models, conceptualizing how factors of the person and situation can help us understand the psychological dynamics which underlie behavior, the psychological experience of fit or congruence with one’s environment, and changes in personality traits over time.

• Identifies technologies for measuring and predicting behavior
• Infers behavior causes from personality and/or situational variables
• Utilizes big data, machine learning and modeling to understand behavior
• Includes mobile phone, social media and wearable tech usage analysis
• Explores the stability of personality over time
• Considers behavior analysis to treat maladaptive behavior

Graduate students, researchers, academics and professionals in the areas of social and personality psychology, engineering, human factors, robotics, applied psychology, computer science, and machine intelligence

Preface

1. A role for information theory in personality modeling, assessment, and judgment

2. What falls outside of the Big Five? Darkness, derailers, and beyond

3. Semantic and ontological structures of psychological attributes

4. Ubiquitous Computing for Person-Environment Research: Opportunities, Considerations, & Future Directions

5. Modeling the mind: Assessment of if…then… profiles as a window to shared and idiosyncratic psychological processes

6. Psychological Targeting in the Age of Big Data

7. Virtual Environments for the Representative Assessment of Personality: VE-RAP

8. Improving measurement of individual differences using social networks

9. Situational Judgment Tests: From Low-fidelity Simulations to Alternative Measures of Personality and the Person-Situation Interplay

10. Intra-Individual Variability in Personality: A Methodological Review

11. Modeling the dynamics of action

12. Conceptualizing and measuring the implicit personality

13. Conceptualizing and measuring the psychological situation

14. Network Approaches to Representing and Understanding Psychological Dynamics

15. Neural Network Models of Personality Structure and Dynamics

16. Interdependence approaches to the person and situation

17. Formally Representing How Psychological Processes Shape Actions and One Another Using Functional Fields

18. Integrating Cybernetic Big Five Theory with the Free Energy Principle: A new strategy for modeling personalities as complex systems

19. COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF APPRAISAL TO UNDERSTAND THE PERSON-SITUATION RELATION

20. An economic approach to modelling personality