Reconciling processing dynamics and personality dispositions

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 229-258

  Mischel, Walter ^a   Shoda, Yuichi ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive affective system; Dispositions; Dynamics; Person situation interactions; Personality stability; Social cognition; Traits

Indexed keywords

EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL;

EID: 0031612588     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.49.1.229     Document Type: Article

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