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.

Autorentext
Dr. Dustin Wood has served as Personality Processes Section Editor at Social Psychology and Personality Compass, and as a guest editor to the European Journal of Personality and European Journal of Psychological Assessment on the topic of new approaches towards conceptualizing and assessing personality. Dr. Stephen Read has co-edited three books (Explaining one's self to others, Erlbaum, 1992; Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior, Erlbaum, 1998; Computational Social Psychology, Psychology Press, in press).Dr. Peter Harms is an Associate Editor at Journal of Managerial Psychology and Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being and has co-edited a special issue of Applied Psychology: An International Review.Dr. Andrew Slaughter is a senior research psychologist at the US Army Research Institute. His work focuses on quantitative methods for social science research and program evaluation.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt

Preface * Dustin Wood

• 1. A role for information theory in personality modeling, assessment, and judgment * David M. Condon and Rene Mõttus
• 2. What falls outside of the Big Five? Darkness, derailers, and beyond * P.D. Harms and Ryne Sherman
• 3. Semantic and ontological structures of psychological attributes * Jan Ketil Arnulf and Kai Larsen
• 4. Ubiquitous Computing for Person-Environment Research: Opportunities, Considerations, & Future Directions * Sumer S. Vaid, Saeed Abdullah, Edison Thomaz and Gabriella Harari
• 5. Modeling the mind: Assessment of if then profiles as a window to shared and idiosyncratic psychological processes * Vivian Zayas, Randy T. Lee and Yuichi Shoda
• 6. Psychological Targeting in the Age of Big Data * Ruth Elisabeth Appel and Sandra Matz
• 7. Virtual Environments for the Representative Assessment of Personality: VE-RAP * Lynn Carol Miller, David C. Jeong and John Christensen
• 8. Improving measurement of individual differences using social networks * Andrew J. Slaughter and Janie Yu
• 9. Situational Judgment Tests: From Low-fidelity Simulations to Alternative Measures of Personality and the Person-Situation Interplay * Filip Lievens, Philipp Schäpers and Christoph Nils Herde
• 10. Intra-Individual Variability in Personality: A Methodological Review * Alisha Marie Ness, Kira Foley and Eric Heggestad
• 11. Modeling the dynamics of action * Ashley D. Brown and William Revelle
• 12. Conceptualizing and measuring the implicit personality * Amanda Moeller, Ben Johnson, Ken Levy and James LeBreton
• 13. Conceptualizing and measuring the psychological situation * John Rauthmann
• 14. Network Approaches to Representing and Understanding Psychological Dynamics * Emorie D. Beck and Joshua Jackson
• 15. Neural Network Models of Personality Structure and Dynamics * Stephen J. Read
• 16. Interdependence approaches to the person and situation * Fabiola Heike Gerpott, Isabel Thielman and Daniel Balliet
• 17. Formally Representing How Psychological Processes Shape Actions and One Another Using Functional Fields * Dustin Wood
• 18. Integrating Cybernetic Big Five Theory with the Free Energy Principle: A new strategy for modeling personalities as complex systems * Adam Safron and Colin DeYoung
• 19. COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF APPRAISAL TO UNDERSTAND THE PERSON-SITUATION RELATION * Nutchanon Yongsatianchot and Stacy Marsella
• 20. An economic approach to modelling personality Lex Borghans and Trudie Schils