title: The Roles of Time and Change in Situations.
abstract: Rauthmann, Sherman and Funder have made a landmark contribution to situation research in the target article of this issue. However, we propose that their work overlooks the need to incorporate a developmental perspective. This includes the separate but related issues oftimeandchange. Situations often unfold over long periods of time, can bleed together, and are not time-delimited in the way traditional laboratory experiments define them. Moreover, individuals systematically change over time (lifespan development) and their reactions to situations, as well as their personality-situation transactions, develop in tandem.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Evanston, IL ; Northwestern University, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
authors.forename: Daniel K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Mroczek
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Condon