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Drugs and people: Repertory grid structure and the construal of two different kinds of traget
Author(s) -
Leenaars Antoon A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198101)37:1<198::aid-jclp2270370141>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - repertory grid , psychology , construal level theory , perception , similarity (geometry) , social psychology , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
Undertook an investigation of the construal of drugs and People by S s to compare the perception of drugs with the perception of people. Kelly's repertory grid (1955) was used in the investigation. A significant finding of the operation of a shift from seeing people as less positive (more negative) and drugs as more positive (less negative) resulted as S s shifted from normal state of consciousnees to a simulated altered state of consciousness. However, this shift was found to differ significantly in terms of more lability for S s who were designated as seeing more similarity in different targets than S s who were designated as seeing more differences in different targets.