Situational Forces in Helping Decisions

Helping behavior is shaped by social situations as well as by personality. Social psychologists and personality psychologists both try to predict human behavior, but they focus on different causes. Personality psychology looks at traits, character, and individual differences. Social psychology looks at the power of the situa...

Prever o comportamento humano é difícil. Pesquisadores interessados em personalidade geralmente se concentram em como certos traços e diferenças de caráter afetam a maneira como os indivíduos se comportam, enquanto aqueles no domínio social se concentram no papel dos fatores situacionais - com base no ambiente de cada um.

Ambas as perspec...