figure 13.10 Personality in context Social-cognitive theorists explain that, to learn about personality, you should study people across a variety of social contexts. If … then … profile graphs show how personality reveals itself in the way that people’s behavior varies from one context to another. The two graphs represent two children’s levels of verbal aggression in each of five different social contexts involving interactions with peers and adults. The two lines in each graph represent the child’s behavior as measured on two different days. On average—that is, if you averaged across the five contexts—the children score about the same. However, their reactions to specific social contexts are entirely different (Mischel & Shoda, 1995).