| dc.description.abstract | Eight hundred and twenty-nine adults, drawn from 12 locations in all four parts of India, participated
in a study that explored the joint effects of Indians’ discrepant mindset, context sensitivity, and quality of
environment on their modes of behavior. Respondents also predicted how a person is likely to change his
behavior when the conditions in which he works change from disabling to enabling. The fi ndings showed
that the two most dominant modes of behavior–self-serving calculative and achieving high positive goal –
coexisted, but were differently caused. Context sensitivity facilitated both modes of behavior; but adequate
infrastructure and friendly and helpful people in the neighborhood encouraged only achieving high positive
goal behavior. On the contrary, duplicity in professing desirable but acting under realistic compulsions,
poor quality of environment, and low levels of development were conducive to self-serving calculative
behavior. As a situation changed from disabling to enabling, a person was likely to shift towards more
positive behavior | |
