01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fundamental Attribution Error, Harry Stack Sullivan
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3/26/18: person-situation interactionist aspects of personality part 2, henry murray, another influential theorist, personology study of personality. Study of personality across time: stressed importance of needs and motivations (e. g. , need for affiliation, also emphasized the environmental press. Influences from other people or events: thema. Combination or interaction between needs/motivations and presses. Can be measured with thematic apperception test (tat: modern-day interactionism, personality (traits) and situations interact to influence behavior. Must attend to both to understand behavior. Personality & the situation are equally important: within same study, researcher considers, overall effects of situation, overall effects of personality, interactive effects of situation & personality, harry stack sullivan: personality in social context, unique definition of personality: Personality molded by social interactions, and is closely tied to social situations. We are different people in different social situations: harry stack sullivan: interpersonal theory of psychiatry , interpersonal theory of psychiatry .