What a ____ thing to do! Formally characterizing actions by their expected effects

• Main Authors: WOOD, Dustin, TOV, William, COSTELLO, Cory
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: action characterisation; concepts; formative models; expectancy-value models; personality traits; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2005; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3262/viewcontent/Thing_to_do_Characterizing_Actions_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A number of personality frameworks assume traits describe central tendencies of action-for instance, calling someone assertive indicates they have a tendency to perform assertive actions. But what makes it appropriate to characterize an action by terms like assertive, kind, or honest? We propose tha...