Gelasia gives a rousing show at the comedy club which includes improvisations, impressions, and magic tricks. The crowd is enthralled and gives her a standing ovation. Later, Carla and Sean go back stage to meet the star. They are surprised to find in person that Gelasia is rather shy and a person of few words. How would Mischel’s concept of a person-situation interaction account for
Gelasia’s “dual personality”?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
The person-situation interaction suggests that traits can change as circumstances do. In fact, when people are too fixed in their responses regardless of the situation, problems can ensue in the absence of trait flexibility. Carla and Sean committed an error when they assessed Gelasia’s personality as being an extravert, life-of-the-party type of person, and paid scant attention to the powerful situational factors that were at work as the magician performed in front of an audience. Gelasia may have shown some traits as a performer that off-stage were not in evidence.?
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