PSYC20009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stanford Prison Experiment, Walter Mischel, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Impact: reputation of personality psychology: many researchers had to move on to study different constructs or constructs that were essentially the same thing, but called them something different (roberts, 2009, rephrased) How people classify is mistaken as how to classify people: coherence of personality traits simply reflect judgements of conceptual similarity, similarly describe a concept not a target. Evaluating situationism: #1: personality is a weak predictor of behaviour (r ~. 30, yes & no: traits rarely predict behaviour past r =. 30, doesn"t mean personality is. Untenable" or situations are better predictors: effects of situation on behaviour found to be, on average, no stronger than that of traits (funder & ozer, 1983; sherman et al. , 2015: correlation strength guidelines tend to be arbitrary, e. g. cohen (1988, richard et al. (2013) summarised average effect sizes across 25,000 studies of 8 million people in personality & psychology, found mean of r.
