The Psychology of Personal Constructs

By G. Kelly. 2020

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Creativity under workload pressure and integrative complexity: The double-edged sword of paradoxical leadership (2019, background): “Integrative complexity, originating from personal construct theory (Kelly, 1955), captures the complexity of cognition in terms of the willingness and capability to understand the environment in a differentiated and integrated manner (Suedfeld et al.”
An Affinity for Learning: Teacher Identity and Powerful Professional Development (2018, background): “Closer in meaning to the psychological concepts of constructs (Kelly, 1955) or schema (Lochman, Holmes, & Wojnaroski, 2008), anchoring beliefs as I interpreted them were a durable but permeable filter through which people saw and made sense of the world.”
Variety Seeking Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Review (2018, background): “Their arguments are based on Driver and Streufert's (1964) synthesis of the theories of consistency (Heider 1946), complexity (Kelly 1955), and optimal arousal (Berlyne 1960).”
Mental models for conservation research and practice (2019, background): “…are available to elicit mental models, namely interviews (Morgan, Fischoff, Bostrom, & Atman, 2002), drawings (Jones et al., 2014), repertory grids (Kelly, 1955), and a variety of mapping techniques including influence diagrams (Diffenbach, 1982), cognitive maps (Axelrod 1976), fuzzy cognitive…”