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Psychological significance in personal and supplied construct systems: A defining experiment
Author(s) -
Stringer Peter
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420020407
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , psychology , personal construct theory , social psychology , variance (accounting) , perception , task (project management) , sorting , cognitive psychology , computer science , accounting , management , neuroscience , economics , business , programming language
An implication was examined of three assumptions of Personal Construct Theory. Personal and supplied construct systems were compared for their capacity to account for 34 subjects' behaviour in an independent sorting task. It was found that either construct system tended to account for a significant amount of the variance in sorting behaviour, but that more was accounted for by personal Construct systems. Observations were made on the way in which this phenomenon varied between subjects, sub‐tasks, and parts of construct systems. The assumptions examined were held to be relevant to Social perception and cognitive theories.