The Person and the Situation
Perspectives of Social Psychology
Character explains less of human behaviour than we assume; the room people stand in explains far more.
Ross and Nisbett argue that we consistently overrate character and underrate circumstance when explaining why people behave as they do. Drawing on the classic obedience, bystander and seminary-student experiments, they show how small features of a situation routinely swamp personality in predicting conduct. This reissue carries a new foreword by Malcolm Gladwell, who describes the book as the template for everything he has written since.
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Malcolm Gladwell
All of my books have been, in some sense, intellectual godchildren of The Person and the Situation. This book has been a constant companion over the past 10 years.
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