“Fair” research designs for investigating personality not only eliminate sources of everyday consistency that are actually situational, they also reduce some sources that reflect genuine interactions between dispositional factors and situational ones. People in everyday circumstances do not just “happen” to face the particular situations that compel and constrain their behavior. They actively choose many of the situations to which they expose themselves, and they alter many situations they happen to encounter. (See Endler, 1983; Kenrick & Funder, 1988; Pervin, 1977; Snyder, 1981, 1983; and
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