: psy 226 chapter 2 textbook notes
29 Sep 2022
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Another way in which we can consider the interaction of personality and situation is via a meta-trait called self-monitoring. Self-monitoring is an individual difference through which people who are high self-monitors evaluate a situation to determine the appropriate behaviors. People who are low in self-monitoring use their own traits to guide their behaviors. Thus, for high self-monitors, the situation is the best predictor of behavior, whereas for low self-monitors, personality is the best predictor of behavior. Personality and situations will interact in terms of the situations people choose. Situations are likely to have dimensions, just as personality has dimensions. Rauthman and colleagues have suggested that situations have eight dimensions. They identify situations as having dimensions of duty, intellect, adversity, mating options, positivity, negativity, deception and sociality, which they call diamonds. To clarify a few of the dimensions, duty means that a job needs to be done. Intellect means that a situation provides an opportunity to demonstrate intelligence.
