Contents

• I. INTRODUCTION
• 1. Construing persons in context : on building a science of the individual / Daniel Cervone, Yuichi Shoda, and Geraldine Downey
• II. CONCEPTUALIZING THE PERSON
• 2. The trait versus situation debate : a minimalist view / Gordon H. Bower
• 3. The power of context / Jerome Kagan
• 4. Eastern and Western ways of perceiving the world / Richard E. Nisbett
• 5. From persons and situations to preferences and constraints / Richard A. Shweder
• III. SELF-REGULATION : FROM WILLPOWER TO A SYSTEM
• 6. Delay of gratification in children : contributions to social-personality psychology / Ozlem Ayduk
• 7. In search of generative mechanisms : the case of value from engagement strength / E. Tory Higgins
• 8. Positive affect, cognitive flexibility, and self-control / Alice M. Isen
• 9. Expectancy and the perception of aversive events / Edward E. Smith
• IV. INCORPORATING SITUATIONS INTO A SCIENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
• 10. Character in context : the relational self and transference / Susan M. Andersen, Jennifer S. Thorpe, and Christina S. Kooij
• 11. Integrating personality traits and processes : framework, method, analysis, results / Niall Bolger and Rainer Romero-Canyas
• 12. Toward a science of the social perceiver / Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Sang Hee Park, and Alexander O’Connor
• 13. Toward a science of the individual : a molecular view of personalized medicine / Paul S. Mischel
• 14. Intelligence as a person-situation interaction / Robert J. Sternberg
• V. PARADIGM CHANGE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS OF HUMAN NATURE, 1950-2000-2050?
• 15. Toward a science of the individual : past, present, future? / Walter Mischel - - 16. Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality / Walter Mischel
• 17. From homunculus to a system : toward a science of the person / Yuichi Shoda