Exploring the Interpersonal and Dynamic Nature of Persons and Situations through Assessment Centre Methods

We agree that situational features are critical for understanding personality expression and that assessment centre exercises provide powerful tools for such explorations. Further, we argue that the interpersonal and dynamic aspects of these exercises provide unique opportunities to study how situations may be shaped by participants themselves, which is critical for understanding how personality is expressed in social contexts. Thus, we recommend that this design be expanded to assess momentary person-situation interplay, which would advance general understanding of such phenomena. Copyright (C) 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology