MISCHEL & SHODA Genetic Determinants o.fCognitive-Affective Dynamics Personality as a Field

The individual's cognitive-affective proccssing system arises in the course of de- velopment from a foundation that both biochemical and psychosocial, geneti- cally guided, as well as shaped by experience and learning in the course of de vel- opment (Mischel & Shoda 1995). To link processing dynamics and predisposi- tions requires clarifying not only the structure and organization of the