The Situational Eight DIAMONDS: A Taxonomy of Major Dimensions of Situation Characteristics

John F Rauthmann; David Gallardo-Pujol; Esther M Guillaume; Elysia Todd; Christopher S Nave; Ryne A Sherman; Matthias Ziegler; Ashley Bell Jones; David C Funder

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The Situational Eight DIAMONDS: A Taxonomy of Major Dimensions of Situation Characteristics

John F Rauthmann, David Gallardo-Pujol, Esther M Guillaume, Elysia Todd, Christopher S Nave, Ryne A Sherman, Matthias Ziegler, Ashley Bell Jones, David C Funder

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Taxonomies of person characteristics are well developed, whereas taxonomies of psychologically important situation characteristics are underdeveloped. A working model of situation perception implies the existence of taxonomizable dimensions of psychologically meaningful, important, and consequential situation characteristics tied to situation cues, goal affordances, and behavior. Such dimensions are developed and demonstrated in a multi-method set of 6 studies. First, the "Situational Eight DIAMONDS" dimensions Duty, Intellect, Adversity, Mating, pOsitivity, Negativity, Deception, and Sociality (Study 1) are established from the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (Sherman, Nave, & Funder, 2010, 2012, 2013; Wagerman & Funder, 2009). Second, their rater agreement (Study 2) and associations with situation cues and goal/trait affordances (Studies 3 and 4) are examined. Finally, the usefulness of these dimensions is demonstrated by examining their predictive power of behavior (Study 5), particularly vis-à-vis measures of personality and situations (Study 6). Together, we provide extensive and compelling evidence that the DIAMONDS taxonomy is useful for organizing major dimensions of situation characteristics. We discuss the DIAMONDS taxonomy in the context of previous taxonomic approaches and sketch future research directions.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037250
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 18 Aug 2014

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