Persons in context

"A fundamental shift in the understanding of human nature is occurring in personality science. Departing from traditional approaches that have focused almost exclusively on the factors internal to a person, the emerging paradigm conceptualizes human experience and behavior as an expression of person-context systems. This book presents theoretical and empirical advances from internationally renowned researchers in personality, social, cognitive, developmental, and cultural psychology, and other fields, who construct a science of the individual by studying persons in context."--Jacket.