Mental States are Important Too. One claim commonly made in the situationist literature in psychology, was that so-called “situational forces”, as opposed to global character traits or even more familiar folk mental states such as beliefs and desires, are part of the best explanation for our behavior (see for instance Ross and Nisbett 1991: 59; Sabini and Silver 2005: 546–554). In a paper published in the journal Ethics in 2005, the leading psychologists John Sabini and Maury Silver engaged with the work of Harman and Doris by primarily criticizing this claim. Their approach was to reassess the leading studies such as Lady in Distress, in order to show that mental states and perhaps even character traits are indeed central to explaining the results. Summarizing their view, they wrote that, 