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Episode 9: Social Psychology, Situationism, and Moral Character

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The Extreme Take Away of Social Psychology

In the sixties, a psychologist named walter michel really challenged his beef was with personality psychologists. He argued that any given situation captures the variance in human behaviour. And so we needto best be able to predict human behaviour as scientists is to look at the interaction between our propensities, our psychological proclivities, and the situations. But this became sort of a a general belief that situation always wins. I think tat it's an absurd claim if you want my real belief,. i think it's absurd to make this extreme claim  that character or personality traits, or whatever it is, the claim that there are no stable, stable individual differences which will cause people to

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