Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

Oct 22, 2021

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by Elisha Babad, Ronen Hammer, and Limor Sahar-Inbar

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Researchers have long overlooked the magic ingredient in teachers' success.

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Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.

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