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A Cognitive-Affective System Theory of Personality: Reconceptualizing Situations, Dispositions, Dynamics, and Invariance in Personality Structure.

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Mischel, Walter; Shoda, Yuichi – Psychological Review, 1995

A theory of personality is proposed to reconcile paradoxical findings on the invariance of personality and the variability of behavior across situations. Individuals are assumed to differ in the accessibility of cognitive-affective mediating units and the organizations of the interactions of these units and situations. (SLD)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology

Conceptualizing Personality as a Cognitive-Affective Processing System: A Framework for Models of Maladaptive Behavior Patterns and Change

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Shoda, Yuichi; Smith, Ronald E. – Behavior Therapy, 2004

This article outlines a conceptualization of personality as a cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS) and explores its implications for understanding disorders and pursuing therapeutic change. The CAPS conception of personality was proposed in 1995 in order to resolve a long-standing paradox in personality and social psychology, namely, the…

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Personality Traits, Learning Processes, Social Psychology