Interactional Psychology and Research on Human Behavior in Organizations

Interactional psychology emphasizes continuous, multidirectional interaction between person and situation characteristics. This perspective suggests that organizational behavior researchers should focus more attention on person factors that might be expected to mediate the effects of situation facto...

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Published inThe Academy of Management review Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 569 - 576
Main Author Terborg, James R.
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Published Briarcliff Manor Academy of Management 01.10.1981
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Abstract Interactional psychology emphasizes continuous, multidirectional interaction between person and situation characteristics. This perspective suggests that organizational behavior researchers should focus more attention on person factors that might be expected to mediate the effects of situation factors, and vice versa. It also encourages a less restricted interpretation of an interaction, which can mean non-additivity, differential validity, overlapping main effects, reciprocal influence, and cognitive sense making of experience.
AbstractList The relative importance of person characteristics versus situation characteristics as it influences behavior is being argued in interactional psychology. This overview defines interactional psychology as an approach of studying behavior resulting from the multidirectional interaction between person and situation characteristics in order to explain the transactions through which individuals select, interpret, and change situations. Person and situation interaction is described in 5 different ways: 1. non-additivity, 2. differential validity, 3. overlapping main effects, 4. reciprocal influence, and 5. cognitive sense-making of experience. This perspective of behavior can also be combined with facet design techniques for study of personal behavior in organizations.
Interactional psychology emphasizes continuous, multidirectional interaction between person and situation characteristics. This perspective suggests that organizational behavior researchers should focus more attention on person factors that might be expected to mediate the effects of situation factors, and vice versa. It also encourages a less restricted interpretation of an interaction, which can mean non-additivity, differential validity, overlapping main effects, reciprocal influence, and cognitive sense making of experience.
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