Situation Cognition and Coherence in Personality : An Individual-Centred Approach (Paperback)

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Theoretical Foundations: 1. Cross-situational consistency: an issue at the interface between personality and social psychology; 2. The history of the consistency debate; 3. P x S: the promise of modern interactionism; 4. The cognitive representation of situations; 5. Individual-centred strategies in the search for consistency; 6. Reconceptualising consistency: the coherence of situation cognition and behaviour; Part II. Empirical Investigations: 7. An individual-centred approach to the study of cross-situational coherence in anxiety-provoking situations; 8. Study 1: developing an individual-centred methodology; 9. Study 2: coherence of situation cognition and behavioural ratings; 10. Study 2: coherence of situation cognition and behavioural self-reports; 11. Beyond the 'nomothetic vs. idiographic' controversy in the search for cross-situational consistency; References; Author index; Subject index.