Toward an Integrative CAPS Approach to Racial/Ethnic Relations |
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Authors: | Walter Mischel Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Ying-yi Hong |
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Affiliation: | Columbia University; University of California, Berkeley; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT The original CAPS formulation focused on the role of the individual's CAPS system in relation to situations, formalizing a person–situation framework. Subsequent research and theorizing on the culturally embedded CAPS system (C-CAPS) began to spell out how culture, context, and group-level processes intersect with both persons and situations. The contributions in this special section provide insights into the enormous complexity and the multiple layers through which context and persons "make each other up" in racial/ethnic relations. The challenge for personality psychologists is to examine and illuminate this interpenetration of context and person concretely and with increasing depth and precision. The CAPS framework provides a meta-level guide for this mission, and the present contributions illustrate the framework's heuristic value. |
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