TY - JOUR
T1 - Contextual variability in personality from significant-other knowledge and relational selves
AU - Andersen, Susan M.
AU - Tuskeviciute, Rugile
AU - Przybylinski, Elizabeth
AU - Ahn, Janet N.
AU - Xu, Joy H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Andersen, Tuskeviciute, Przybylinski, Ahn and Xu.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We argue that the self is intrinsically embedded in an interpersonal context such that it varies in IF-THEN terms, as the relational self. We have demonstrated that representations of the significant other and the relationship with that other are automatically activated by situational cues and that this activation affects both experienced and expressed aspects of the self and personality. Here, we expand on developments of the IF-THEN cognitive-affective framework of personality system (Mischel and Shoda, 1995), by extending it to the domain of interpersonal relationships at the dyadic level (Andersen and Chen, 2002). Going beyond Mischel's early research (Mischel, 1968), our framework combines social cognition and learning theory with a learning-based psychodynamic approach, which provides the basis for extensive research on the social-cognitive process of transference and the relational self as it arises in everyday social interactions (Andersen and Cole, 1990), evidence from which contributes to a modern conceptualization of personality that emphasizes the centrality of the situation.
AB - We argue that the self is intrinsically embedded in an interpersonal context such that it varies in IF-THEN terms, as the relational self. We have demonstrated that representations of the significant other and the relationship with that other are automatically activated by situational cues and that this activation affects both experienced and expressed aspects of the self and personality. Here, we expand on developments of the IF-THEN cognitive-affective framework of personality system (Mischel and Shoda, 1995), by extending it to the domain of interpersonal relationships at the dyadic level (Andersen and Chen, 2002). Going beyond Mischel's early research (Mischel, 1968), our framework combines social cognition and learning theory with a learning-based psychodynamic approach, which provides the basis for extensive research on the social-cognitive process of transference and the relational self as it arises in everyday social interactions (Andersen and Cole, 1990), evidence from which contributes to a modern conceptualization of personality that emphasizes the centrality of the situation.
KW - Close relationships
KW - Cross-situational inconsistency
KW - Relational self
KW - Significant others
KW - Transference
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U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01882
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01882
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84958582478
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
IS - JAN
M1 - 1882
ER -