pact on the social world, partly shaping and selecting the interpersonal situa-tions the person subsequently faces in a dynamic transaction (Buss 1987). To recapitulate, the CAPS analysis begins with the assumption that indi-viduals differ stably in the chronic accessibility or activation levels of the par-of relationships among of social information processing (Read & of the biological bases of of the brain (e.g. Crick & Koch J 990, Churchland & Sejnowski Dynamic, Transactional System: 771e Active/Proactive Person Incorporating Context : ticular mental representations available to them (e.g. Higgins 1996a, Higgins & Bargh 1987, Mischel 1973) but adds a second assumption-namely, stable individual differences in the distinctive organization the cognitions and affects available in the system. The latter is consistent with the emerging connectionist models A schematic, highly simplified illustration of such a personality system is in Figure I, which shows that a personality system is characterized by the available cognitive and affective units (Table I), organized in a distinctive network of in- terrelations. When certain configurations of situation features arc experienced by an individual, a characteristic subset of cognitions and affects (shown sche-

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pact on the social world, partly shaping and selecting the interpersonal situa-tions the person subsequently faces in a dynamic transaction (Buss 1987). To recapitulate, the CAPS analysis begins with the assumption that indi-viduals differ stably in the chronic accessibility or activation levels of the par-of relationships among of social information processing (Read & of the biological bases of of the brain (e.g. Crick & Koch J 990, Churchland & Sejnowski Dynamic, Transactional System: 771e Active/Proactive Person Incorporating Context

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pact on the social world, partly shaping and selecting the interpersonal situa-tions the person subsequently faces in a dynamic transaction (Buss 1987). To recapitulate, the CAPS analysis begins with the assumption that indi-viduals differ stably in the chronic accessibility or activation levels of the par-of relationships among of social information processing (Read & of the biological bases of of the brain (e.g. Crick & Koch J 990, Churchland & Sejnowski Dynamic, Transactional System: 771e Active/Proactive Person Incorporating Context

ticular mental representations available to them (e.g. Higgins 1996a, Higgins & Bargh 1987, Mischel 1973) but adds a second assumption-namely, stable individual differences in the distinctive organization the cognitions and affects available in the system. The latter is consistent with the emerging connectionist models A schematic, highly simplified illustration of such a personality system is in Figure I, which shows that a personality system is characterized by the available cognitive and affective units (Table I), organized in a distinctive network of in- terrelations. When certain configurations of situation features arc experienced by an individual, a characteristic subset of cognitions and affects (shown sche-

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