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Kelly's personal construct theory of personality is perhaps his most significant contribution to psychology. It is a broad theory based on the idea that people are like scientists who go around testing personal theories, or personal constructs, about the world and how it works, and about themselves.
Chapter 14: Kelly – Personal Construct Theory. George Kelly’s personal construct theory goes beyond the cognitive elements addressed by social learning theorists and provides a full-fledged cognitive theory. Kelly believed that individuals act very much like scientists studying personality: they create constructs, or expectations, about the ...
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George Alexander Kelly (1905–1967) spent the early years of his career focused on the issue of providing clinical psychologists for schools. He founded and developed the traveling psychological clinic while teaching at the Fort Hays campus of Kansas State College. During the years of the Depression up to the time the United States joined World War ...
George Alexander Kelly was born outside of Perth, Kansas, on April 28, 1905. He was the only child of a Presbyterian minister, Theodore Vincent Kelly, and Elfreda Merriam Kelly—who was, according to Fay Fransella quoting Kelly in a biographical sketch for the International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology,"the daughter of a Nova Scotian ca...
The Psychology of Personal Constructs. Two volumes. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1955."The Theory and Technique of Assessment." Annual Review of Psychology.9 (1958): 323–52."Suicide: The Personal Construct Point of View," edited by N. L. Farberow and E. S. Schneidman. The Cry for Help.McGraw-Hill, 1961."Europe's Matrix of Decision," edited by M. R. Jones. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation.University of Nebraska Press, 1962.Kelly developed not merely a theory of psychology. He developed an entire psychology based on 20 years of practical clinical experience and the theories he derived from that experience. As he offered in his preface for the book, the structure by which it was organized was essentially the manifestation of the psychology itself. Kelly knew that he no...
Kelly's life and work followed almost exactly through the first half of the twentieth century—from the time of his birth in 1905 until the time of his death in 1967. This man who was born in the early days of the automobile, only two years after the Wright Brothers' attempt at flying, was already four years old when he went with his parents by cove...
While Kelly met with praise from the reviews of psychologists such as Carl Rogers and Jerome Bruner, he certainly met with criticism as well. According to the Biographical Dictionary of Psychology,the major objections of the time of publication and into a new century centered around three major arguments, as directly quoted: 1. The theory had relat...
Beginning almost immediately after Kelly published his work, someone began to do research using personal construct psychology as a basis. Kelly was not known to show much interest in acquiring research to support his theories. He found more value in using them abstractly—using them to re-evaluate what people already knew to be true. From that point...
1905:Born on a farm near Perth, Kansas, as the only child to Theodore and Elfreda Kelly. 1926:Graduates with a bachelor's degree from Park College, Kansas. 1928:Receives a master's degree from the University of Kansas. 1930:Studies through a fellowship, received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Edinburgh. 1931: Receives his P...
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American Psychological Society. March 2004. http://www.psychologicalscience.org. Atherton, J. S. Learning and Teaching: Personal Construct Psychology. United Kingdom. 2003 [cited March 14, 2004]. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/personal.htm. Baron, Reuben M., and William G. Graziano, with Charles Stangor. Social Psychology. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSII), Fort Worth, Texas: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1991. Boeree, C. George. Personality Theories....
Further readings
Neimark, Jill. "The diva of disclosure, memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus." Psychology TodayJanuary 1996. Peplau, Letitia Anne, David O. Sears, Shelley E. Taylor, and Jonathan L. Freedman. Readings in Social Psychology, Classic and Contemporary Contributions. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1988. The Personal Construct Psychology Information Centre, Hamburg, Germany. Personal Construct Psychology Information Centre. March 2004. http://www.pcp-net.de. Westmeyer, Hans. "On...
Feb 10, 2012 · 'The first three chapters of a larger work entitled "The psychology of personal constructs", published 1955'-publisher's note Includes bibliographical references and index Access-restricted-item
Like other theories, the psychology of personal constructs is the implementation of a philosophical assumption. In this case the assumption is that whatever nature may be, or howsoever the quest for truth will turn out in the end, the events we face today are subject to as great a variety of construction as our wits will enable us to contrive.
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The basic reference for George Kelly is the two volume Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955). The first three chapters are available in paperback as A Theory of Personality (1963). Another paperback, written especially for the "layperson," is Bannister and Fransella's Inquiring Man: The Theory of Personal Constructs (1971).
Sep 11, 2012 · George Kelly’s The psychology of personal constructs put forward a new psychology that viewed people as actively constructing and anticipating their worlds. This paper considers personal construct theory and its philosophy; personal construct assessment techniques; the personal construct view of psychological disorder and its treatment; and ...
