The Psychology of Social Situations

Contents

Introduction

Part 1 The Structure of Social Situations


1 The Polish Peasant in Europe and America


2. The Structural Elements of Games


3. Making The Scene


4 Behavioral Appropriateness and Situational Constraint As Dimensions of Social Behavior


5 A Free-Response Description Approach to the Analysis of Person-Situation Interaction


6 The Goal Structure of Situations

Part 2 The Social Psychological Approach

The Perception of Social Situations


1 The Perception of Social Episodes


2 An Analysis of Situational Dimensions


3. Perceived Dimensions of Interpersonal Relations

The Response To Social Situations


1. Physiological Effects of Social Environments


2. Emotional Impact of A Task and Its Setting On Work Performance of Screeners and Non Screeners


3. Similar Situations • Similar Behaviors?

Stressful Situations


1 Social Difficulty in A Student Sample


2. Types of Stressful Situations and their Relation to Trait Anxiety and Sex


3. Anxiety: States, Traits - Situations?

Interactional Psychology


1. The Trait-Situation Controversy and the Concept of Interaction


2. The Case For Person-Situation Interactions


3 On The Future of Personality Measurement

Part 3 The Approach of Other Areas in the Social Sciences

Environmental Psychology


1 Explorations in Ecological Psychology


2. 'Situational' Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice


3 Judgements of People and their Rooms


4. Psychiatric Patients and Staff Reaction to their Physical Environment

Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology


1. The Definition of The Situation: An Analysis of the Ethnomethodological and Dramaturgical View


2. A Theory of The Definition of The Situation


3. The Dramaturgical Model

Socio-And Psycholinguistics


1. The Neglected Situation


2. The Situation: A Neglected Source of Social Class Differences in Language Use


3. Address Forms Used By Members of A Department Store

Clinical Psychology


1. Effectiveness of Situation Redefinition and Affective Isolation in Coping with Stress


2. Situational Determinants of Assertive Behaviors


3. A Situation-Specific Model For Smoking Behavior

Author Index

Subject Index