Personal construct theory, within personality psychology, is a theory of personality and cognition developed by the American psychologist George Kelly in the 1950s, addressing the psychological reasons for actions. Kelly proposed that individuals can be evaluated according to similarity-dissimilarity poles he called personal constructs, or ways of seeing the world; from the theory he derived a psychotherapy approach and a technique called the repertory grid interview, which helped patients analyze their own personal constructs with minimal intervention by the therapist, and which was later adapted for uses within organizations including decision-making. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearThe article says the theory was developed in the 1950s; its footnote gives 1955 as the first publication year of the Kelly text it cites (1991 edition), so 1955 is the year of Kelly's founding book, not a stated date for the theory itself. Core ClaimPeople act like intuitive scientists, building and continually refining their own personal constructs, or ways of seeing the world, so they can anticipate and predict future events. 1 Connections
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George Kelly introduced personal construct theory in his 1955 The Psychology of Personal Constructs, proposing that people understand and anticipate events through individually constructed bipolar categories.
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a theory of personality and cognition developed by the American psychologist George Kelly in the 1950s
Principles section, scientist analogy
Every man is, in his own particular way, a scientist
Footnote PCT, note on the Kelly 1991 edition
first published 1955
In Branch: Personality Psychology, Lead
Within personality psychology, personal construct theory (PCT) or personal construct psychology (PCP) is a theory of personality and cognition developed by the American psychologist George Kelly in the 1950s.
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