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"Dispositionist" is a term in psychology used to describe those that believe people's actions are conditioned by some internal factor, such as beliefs, values, personality traits, or abilities, rather than the situation they find themselves in.
A Disposionist is a person who believes in Lay Dispositionism, the tendency to use personality traits or other dispositions (e.g., intelligence) to explain and predict social actions or outcomes (Ross & Nisbett,1991).
It explains events as a result of someone's personal preference. An example of how a dispositionis would look at bankrupcty is that it is a self-inflicted result because the person's personal laziness. It is encouraged by culture an identities which have a strong affect on dispositionist and how a person views results on things. [3]RRLukasek (talk) 03:11, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Another example of this concept is when a person doesn't eat pork. When they order a sandwich at a restaurant and it comes with bacon on it, they order the sandwich without bacon. When they receive the sandwich and it has bacon on it anyway, they ask for a new one instead of picking the bacon off. [4] (See also: fundamental attribution error). The opposite position is sometimes called "situationism".Jesanchrs (talk) 17:06, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
<ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named undefined; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no textRoss, L., & Nisbett, R. E. (1991). The person and the situation: Perspectives of social psychology. NY: McGraw Hill.