Cognition and Persortal Structure is not a book that the typical niarketing research professional would be likely to read on the basis of its title. It is a book that should be of interest to a very broad cross-section of the marketing research community, however. Certainly marketing professionals interested in computer-assisted data collection, expert systems, cognitive structure, and behavior...

This paper uses Kelly’s typology of weeping to explore how remaining focused on what Kelly “really meant” often restricts creative and novel use of his theory. Arguing against particular interpretations of personal construct psychology because they fail to adhere to Kelly’s beliefs proves difficult because it is impossible to know for certain what Kelly “really meant.” Concepts from radical con...

Fixed-role therapy, a dramaturgical approach to psychotherapy developed by Kelly in 1955, has been used in a variety of situations over the years with various client groups, including criminal offenders. Some of the benefits and limitations of fixed-role therapy with sexual abusers will be discussed. It is suggested that the strengths of some offenders, such as the social skills necessary to su...

Interactive construct elicitetion systems may be seen on the one hand as tools for self-realization and construct development and on th~ other as dialectic database systems in which ~hc entire data structure is built up through a process of question, answer and discussion. Current computer-based construct elicitation programs use distance-based measures to feed back construct similarities and t...

This article is devoted to two different generalizations of projective Boolean algebras: openly generated Boolean algebras and tightly σ-filtered Boolean algebras. We show that for every uncountable regular cardinal κ there are 2 pairwise non-isomorphic openly generated Boolean algebras of size κ > א1 provided there is an almost free non-free abelian group of size κ. The openly generated Boolea...

Measures of psychological constructs are validated by testing whether they relate to measures of other constructs as specified by theory. Each test of relations between measures reflects on the validity of both the measures and the theory driving the test. Construct validation concerns the simultaneous process of measure and theory validation. In this article, we review the recent history of va...