What is Personal Construct Psychology Pt 5
Commonality Corollary To the extent that one person employs a construction of experience which is similar to that employed by another, his or her processes are psychologically similar to those of the other person. Because people behave at times in the same way, this does not mean that they see things similarly
Sociality Corollary To the extent that one person construes the construction processes of another, he or she may play a role in a social process involving the other person. So this means that social interaction depends on the understanding of the other even though they may have very different constructs.
CONSTRUCTS
Kelly proposed several different types of construct such as pre-emptive where the construct is one which pre-empts its elements into its own realm exclusively. So, for some individuals, a homosexual is seen as nothing except a homosexual and is not allowed within the range of convenience of any other of their constructs. A constellatory construct is one which gathers others around it. For instance, a football fan may gather others such as ‘aggressive’, ‘vandal’, ‘drunkard’, etc., in some people’s constructs.
