Supporting Corollaries

• 11 Corollaries

  1. Construction Corollary
  2. Individuality Corollary
  3. Organization Corollary
  4. Dichotomy Corollary
  5. Choice Corollary
  6. Range Corollary
  7. Experience Corollary
  8. Modulation Corollary
  9. Fragmentation Corollary
  10. Commonality Corollary
  11. Sociality Corollary
• • Kelly’s assumption that people anticipate events according to their interpretations of recurrent themes.
  • a person anticipates events by construing their replications
  • points out that people are forward looking; their behavior is forged by their anticipation of future events.
  • It also emphasizes the notion that people construe or interpret future events according to recurrent themes or replications.

  Construction Corollary
• • Kelly’s assumption that people have different experiences and therefore construe events in different ways.
  • due to individual differences, the communication is never perfect.

  Individuality Corollary
• • Kelly’s notion that people arrange their personal constructs in a hierarchical system
  • emphasizes that different people organize similar events in a manner that minimizes incompatibilities and inconsistencies.
  • assumes an ordinal relationship of constructs so that one construct may be subsumed under another

  Organization Corollary
• • Kelly’s assumption that people construe events in an either/or (dichotomous) manner.
  • a person’s construction system is composed of a finite number of dichotomous constructs
  • Kelly insisted that a construct is an either-or proposition—black or white, with no shades of gray.
  • In order to form a construct, people must be able to see similarities between events, but they must also contrast those events with their opposite pole.

  Dichotomy Corollary
• • Kelly’s assumption that people choose the alternative in a dichotomized construct that they perceive will extend their range of future choices.
  • People choose for themselves that alternative in a dichotomized construct through which they anticipate the greater possibility for extension and definition of future constructs.
  • assumes much of what is stated in Kelly’s basic postulate and in the preceding corollaries. People make choices on the basis of how they anticipate events, and those choices are between dichotomous alternatives.
  • assumes that people choose those actions that are most likely to extend their future range of choices.

  Choice Corollary
• • Kelly’s assumption that personal constructs are limited to a finite range of convenience
  • a construct is limited to a particular range of convenience.

  Range Corollary
• • includes all elements having a common property, and it excludes those that do not have that property

  Concept
• • Kelly’s view that people continually revise their personal constructs as the result of experience.
  • Experience consists of the successive construing of events. The events themselves do not constitute experience—it is the meaning we attach to them that changes our lives.

  Experience Corollary
• • Theory that states that personal constructs are permeable (resilient), that they are subject to change through experience.
  • This corollary follows from and expands the experience corollary.
  • It assumes that the extent to which people revise their constructs is related to the degree of permeability of their existing constructs

  Modulation Corollary
• • A quality of personal constructs that allows new information to revise our way of viewing things.
  • A construct is permeable if new elements can be added to it. Impermeable or concrete constructs do not admit new elements.

  Permeability
• • Kelly’s assumption that behavior is sometimes inconsistent because one’s construct systems can admit incompatible elements.

  Fragmentation Corollary
• • Kelly’s theory that personal constructs of people with similar experiences tend to be similar.
  • Two people need not experience the same event or even similar events for their processes to be psychologically similar; they must merely construe their experiences in a similar fashion.
  • This is similar to Albert Bandura’s notion of collective efficacy. Kelly also assumes that no two people ever interpret experiences exactly the same.

  Commonality Corollary
• • It is the individual, not society, who has varying levels of high or low collective efficacy.
  • Albert Bandura

  Collective Efficacy
• • Kelly’s notion that people can communicate with others because they are able to construe others’ constructions.
  • To the extent that people accurately construe the belief system of others, they may play a role in a social process involving those other people.

  Sociality Corollary
• In interpersonal relations, they not only observe the behavior of the other person; they also interpret what that behavior means to that person.
• • A pattern of behavior that results from people’s understanding of the constructs of others with whom they are engaged in some task.
  • One’s ? does not depend on one’s place or position in a social setting but rather on how one interprets that role.

  Role
• • People’s construction of who they really are; their sense of identity that provides a guide for living

  Core Role