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List of contents
Preface, PART I. A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO PERSONALITY IN THE SOCIAL PROCESS, Chapter 1. Personality in the Social Process, Chapter 2. The Personological Bases of Social Responsiveness, Chapter 3. Dimensions of the Person, Chapter 4. Dimensions of the Situation, Chapter 5. Interactional Patterns: A Model of the Person in the Situation, PART II. THE INITIAL SOCIAL RESPONSE, Chapter 6. Social Perception, Chapter 7. Information Processing, Chapter 8. Interpersonal Attraction, PART III. COMPLEX FORMS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION, Chapter 9. The Initiation-Concurrence Dimension of Group Process, Chapter 10. The Affiliative-Disaffiliative Dimension of Group Process, Chapter 11. Negotiation Processes, Chapter 12. Group Structure, PART IV. THE OUTCOME OF GROUP PROCESS: TESTING THE MODEL OF THE PERSON IN THE SITUATION, Chapter 13. The Performance of Individuals in Groups, Chapter 14. Epilogue, References, Author Index, Subject Index
About the author
Joel Arnoff Michigan State University, John P. WIlson Cleveland State University
Summary
First published in 1985. This book presents a new way to ask an old question. Many fields have considered the nature of the influence that members of a group exert on the course of social events. Social science provides another way to examine this issue. Moreover, social science has a particular strength: It helps us to phrase questions more precisely than before, it encourages us to follow a line of reasoning systematically, and it requires us to evaluate our ideas in light of a particular kind of evidence. The authors want to use these strengths to explore systematically the ways that factors in the person and in the environment together may shape the emergence of social behavior.
