ABSTRACT
As we indicated in Chapter 1, it really is up to the student to make up his or her own mind about the relative merits of our two “meta-approaches,” situationism and dispositionism. What follows, then-as the chapter’s subtitle indicates-is merely a personal view of how one might reconcile the two, and students and teachers who genuinely want to make up their own minds wholly independently of me are of course welcome to skip this final chapter. Since the material that we have come to call “political psychology” has rarely been categorized consistently by most of its practitioners in the way we have done in this book, we are in some ways on our own in coming to conclusions on this issue. We are not entirely alone, however, since various political scientists (especially those in international relations) and psychologists (especially those influenced by attribution theory and social psychology generally) have reflected upon this issue in depth.
