In Mischel's "if . . . then" approach to personality, conditional statements help to convey behavioral consistency in terms of

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Mischel's "if...then" approach to personality suggests that people display consistency in their behavior through their responses to specific situations. This means that while a person's behavior may vary across different situations (behavioral variance), there is a pattern or consistency in how they respond to similar types of situations. This approach challenges the traditional view of personality as exhibiting cross-situational consistency, instead proposing that behavior is more situationally dependent.

In Mischel's "If