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The Person and the Situation
Ross, Lee, and Richard Nisbett. The Person and the Situation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Why this matters here
Lee Ross and Richard Nisbett’s The Person and the Situation synthesizes social psychology showing that situations shape behavior far more than everyday dispositional intuition allows. After Certainty uses that situational frame around heroic narratives: once admiration stabilizes a story, revising it becomes emotionally expensive and scrutiny can feel like disloyalty. The source establishes person–situation attribution science; the book asks how care for a hero quietly becomes insulation of the story itself.
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