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Cognitive Complexity and Sociality
Author(s) -
ADAMSWEBBER J. R.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1969.tb00609.x
Subject(s) - sociality , corollary , construct (python library) , psychology , cognition , simple (philosophy) , cognitive psychology , cognitive complexity , social psychology , computer science , epistemology , mathematics , ecology , philosophy , neuroscience , pure mathematics , biology , programming language
A discussion of Bieri's definition of ‘cognitive complexity’ within the general framework of Personal Construct Theory, and specifically in terms of the theoretical implications of Kelly's Sociality Corollary , led to the hypothesis that relatively cognitively complex persons infer the personal constructs of others in social situations more efficiently than do relatively cognitively simple persons. The results of an experiment were consistent with this hypothesis.