ABSTRACT
Social psychologists have focusedon the powerful impact of the social environment on humanbehavior andmotivation (Milgram, 1965;Zimbardo, 1972),whereas personality psychologists have long emphasized the power of individual dispositions (McCrae & Costa, 1996). Although social and personality psychologists engaged in a heated debate in the 1970s about the relative importance of person versus situation variables for understanding behavior, social-cognitive formulations (Bandura, 1978; Mischel & Shoda, 1995) have reconciled the two positions by emphasizing the dynamic interplay between what individuals bring to the situation and the situational context itself.
