Environment acts on the subject only as comprehended and transformed into situation

Evidence

The E→P→R formula provides a convenient way of visualizing the fallacy in the claim that behavior is so much a function of environments that individuals’ predispositions need not be studied (reservation two). In fact, environments are always mediated by the individuals on whom they act; environments cannot shape behavior directly, and much politically important action is not reactive to immediate stimuli. Indeed, the capacity to be proactive (Murray, 1968) and transcend existing perceptions of what the environment dictates is at the core of effective leadership. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1137 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Environmental adversity only reorients choice; it does not cancel freedom; The environment is revealed only through and within one’s free project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1196; Environments influence behavior only through individual mediation. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1137 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Environments influence behavior only through individual mediation. #corroborates (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1137