Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations presents major innovations and contributions on the topic, promoting deeper integration, cross-pollination of ideas across diverse academic disciplines, and the facilitation of the development of practical applications such as matching people to jobs, understanding decision making, and predicting how a group of individuals will interact with one another. The book is organized around two overarching and interrelated themes, with the first focusing on assessing the person and the situation, covering methodological advances and techniques for inferring and measuring characteristics, and showing how they can be instantiated for measurement and predictive purposes.
The book's second theme presents theoretical models, conceptualizing how factors of the person and situation can help us understand the psychological dynamics which underlie behavior, the psychological experience of fit or congruence with ones environment, and changes in personality traits over time.
- Identifies technologies for measuring and predicting behavior
- Infers behavior causes from personality and/or situational variables
- Utilizes big data, machine learning and modeling to understand behavior
- Includes mobile phone, social media and wearable tech usage analysis
- Explores the stability of personality over time
- Considers behavior analysis to treat maladaptive behavior
Preface
Dustin Wood
1. A role for information theory in personality modeling, assessment, and
judgment
David M. Condon and Rene Mõttus
2. What falls outside of the Big Five? Darkness, derailers, and beyond
P.D. Harms and Ryne Sherman
3. Semantic and ontological structures of psychological attributes
Jan Ketil Arnulf and Kai Larsen
4. Ubiquitous Computing for Person-Environment Research: Opportunities,
Considerations, & Future Directions
Sumer S. Vaid, Saeed Abdullah, Edison Thomaz and Gabriella Harari
5. Modeling the mind: Assessment of ifthen profiles as a window to shared
and idiosyncratic psychological processes
Vivian Zayas, Randy T. Lee and Yuichi Shoda
6. Psychological Targeting in the Age of Big Data
Ruth Elisabeth Appel and Sandra Matz
7. Virtual Environments for the Representative Assessment of Personality:
VE-RAP
Lynn Carol Miller, David C. Jeong and John Christensen
8. Improving measurement of individual differences using social networks
Andrew J. Slaughter and Janie Yu
9. Situational Judgment Tests: From Low-fidelity Simulations to Alternative
Measures of Personality and the Person-Situation Interplay
Filip Lievens, Philipp Schäpers and Christoph Nils Herde
10. Intra-Individual Variability in Personality: A Methodological Review
Alisha Marie Ness, Kira Foley and Eric Heggestad
11. Modeling the dynamics of action
Ashley D. Brown and William Revelle
12. Conceptualizing and measuring the implicit personality
Amanda Moeller, Ben Johnson, Ken Levy and James LeBreton
13. Conceptualizing and measuring the psychological situation
John Rauthmann
14. Network Approaches to Representing and Understanding Psychological
Dynamics
Emorie D. Beck and Joshua Jackson
15. Neural Network Models of Personality Structure and Dynamics
Stephen J. Read
16. Interdependence approaches to the person and situation
Fabiola Heike Gerpott, Isabel Thielman and Daniel Balliet
17. Formally Representing How Psychological Processes Shape Actions and One
Another Using Functional Fields
Dustin Wood
18. Integrating Cybernetic Big Five Theory with the Free Energy Principle: A
new strategy for modeling personalities as complex systems
Adam Safron and Colin DeYoung
19. COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF APPRAISAL TO UNDERSTAND THE PERSON-SITUATION
RELATION
Nutchanon Yongsatianchot and Stacy Marsella
20. An economic approach to modelling personality
Lex Borghans and Trudie Schils
Dr. Dustin Wood has served as Personality Processes Section Editor at Social Psychology and Personality Compass, and as a guest editor to the European Journal of Personality and European Journal of Psychological Assessment on the topic of new approaches towards conceptualizing and assessing personality. Dr. Stephen Read has co-edited three books (Explaining ones self to others, Erlbaum, 1992; Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior, Erlbaum, 1998; Computational Social Psychology, Psychology Press, in press). Dr. Peter Harms is an Associate Editor at Journal of Managerial Psychology and Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being and has co-edited a special issue of Applied Psychology: An International Review. Dr. Andrew Slaughter is a senior research psychologist at the US Army Research Institute. His work focuses on quantitative methods for social science research and program evaluation.
