Mischel claims that he is misunderstood by his critics. The issue of the power of situations versus personality as explanations of behavior is a pseudo controversy because research studies can be constructed to support either side.
Some situations are powerful determinants of behavior.
All people will act similarly and show minimum individual differences. The relative importance of individual differences will depend on the situation selected, the behavior assessed, and the purpose of the assessment. It is possible to recognize continuity in behavior. But what people do in any situation may be changed dramatically even by relatively trivial alterations in the particular features of the immediate situation. Mischel actually seems to question the existence of global traits, suggesting that they are the constructions of the personality theorists and any people who are the observers of life.