Actually, the example I posted was about the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Your second paragraph is what I'm going to get back to later on, because you're absolutely right. There are certainly situations (!!) where I lean towards dispositional. Stress plays a large role in this, I think. There was another study on brain physiology that challenged one of the key tenets of developmental theory by proving that people can grow new neurons all their lives, but ONLY in situations that aren't particularly stressful, and ONLY if periods of extreme stress are limited in duration. So, the longer someone lives with extreme poverty, the higher their ambient stress level and the less likely they are to be able to learn what they need to learn to move out of that situation on their own - or possibly ever.
Like I said, I'll get back to this in my edit later.
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Date: 2006-11-27 05:02 pm (UTC)Your second paragraph is what I'm going to get back to later on, because you're absolutely right. There are certainly situations (!!) where I lean towards dispositional. Stress plays a large role in this, I think. There was another study on brain physiology that challenged one of the key tenets of developmental theory by proving that people can grow new neurons all their lives, but ONLY in situations that aren't particularly stressful, and ONLY if periods of extreme stress are limited in duration. So, the longer someone lives with extreme poverty, the higher their ambient stress level and the less likely they are to be able to learn what they need to learn to move out of that situation on their own - or possibly ever.
Like I said, I'll get back to this in my edit later.