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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. ON PERSONALITY VARIABLES, SITUATIONS, AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR -- Epistemological Status of Personality Descriptions and Definition of the Situation -- Personality Measures and Operational Definitions -- Transsituational Consistency -- The Person X Situation Interaction -- The Contents of This Book -- Conclusions -- References -- 2. MOTIVATION FOR ACHIEVEMENT -- Experimental Validation of Thematic Apperceptive Measurement of Motivation -- Preliminary Evidence of Interaction of Personality and Situational Determinants of Motivation -- A Theory of Achievement Motivation -- Motivation and Efficiency of Performance -- The Dynamics of Action Applied to Achievement-Related Action -- Motivation and Achievement -- Personality and Behavioral Processes -- References -- 3. AUTHORITARIANISM -- The Search for a Reliable Measure of Authoritarianism -- The Search for the Correlates and the Antecedents of Authoritarianism -- Background: Personality and Situational Determinants of Authoritarian Behavior -- The Interaction of Personality and Situation: Three Examples -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4. PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION -- History -- Measures of Field Dependence-Independence -- Field Dependence-Independence and Social Behavior -- Overview -- References -- 5. INTROVERSION/EXTRAVERSION -- Historical Background to the Concept -- Measurement of Extraversion Today -- The Extraversiori Dimension in Context -- Two Major Components of Extraversion -- Extraversion and Abnormal Behavior -- The Genetic Basis of Extraversion -- Eysenck's Arousal Theory -- Sensitivity to Reward and Punishment: Gray's Theory -- Intelligence -- Education -- Occupational Psychology -- Risk Taking and Accident Proneness -- Criminality and Antisocial Behavior.

The relations linking aggressive to soc behavior are particularly strong when one considers the release & the control of aggressive behavior. The stimuli which provoke aggressive behavior nearly always come from outside; they are connected with the presence of a congener. One may assume that the stimuli & perceptions which enter into individual recognition have some connection with the triggering of aggressive. behavior ior. In mammals & esp in rodents, the role of olfactive cues has been stressed in a great many studies. In M mice, a great deal of individual recognition seems to depend on scent signals originating either in the genito-urinary region or in the urinary tract. The release of aggressive conducts is linked to similar olfactive cues: anosmia provokes a total disappearance of aggression in M mice. The role of the soc environment in the control of aggressive behavior can be studied by changing the density of pop. In natural conditions, the soc life tends to reduce aggressiveness; much animal behavior is directed towards developing exchange of information to reduce intra-specific fightings. But when M mice, for example, are isolated, their aggressiveness is increased; this phenomenon has been found in other animals & in man. In the same way, overcrowding increases aggressiveness in animals. Psychol'ts & physiologists have studied some of the internal changes involved by modification of the soc environment. In rodents, olfactive cues are also involved in these phenomena. AA.

1 Ontogeny of Social Behavior -- 2 On the Physiological Organization of Social Behavior: Sex and Aggression -- 3 The Analysis of Animal Communication -- 4 Mechanisms and Evolution of Spacing in Animals -- 5 Foraging Strategies and Their Social Significance -- 6 The Evolution of Mating Systems in Birds and Mammals -- 7 The Roles of Individual, Kin, and Group Selection in the Evolution of Sociality.