Comments on: History’s Longest Running Whack-a-Mole Game (“Dualism”) Continues. As Usual, Friends of the Right Brain Are Kicking (Left Brain) Posteriors and Taking Names http://www.brainmeup.com/blog/2010/02/history%e2%80%99s-longest-running-whack-a-mole-game-%e2%80%9cdualism%e2%80%9d-continues-as-usual-friends-of-the-right-brain-are-kicking-left-brain-posteriors-and-taking-names/ ... a (mostly) good natured critique of World Handling Skills & Tools Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:24:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dr. Sean Brophy http://www.brainmeup.com/blog/2010/02/history%e2%80%99s-longest-running-whack-a-mole-game-%e2%80%9cdualism%e2%80%9d-continues-as-usual-friends-of-the-right-brain-are-kicking-left-brain-posteriors-and-taking-names/comment-page-1/#comment-378 Dr. Sean Brophy Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:09:15 +0000 http://www.brainmeup.com/blog/?p=1670#comment-378 Dear Dudley, I was most pleased to see your reference to the work of the late George Kelly. If they aren't already acquainted with Dr. Kelly, your readers might like to know that the measurement tool used in the Psychology of Personal Constructs is called a role repertory grid. This is used to measure a person’s construing of people, things or events (their "psychological space"). In the most comprehensive recent text on Kelly's grid, <em>A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique</em> (John Wiley, 2004, p. 5), Fay Fransella, Richard Bell and Don Bannister described the model underlying Personal Construct Psychology this way: "The model...is explicitly the idea of every person being his or her own scientist. George Kelly, the founder of this psychology, believed that we strive to make sense out of our universe, out of ourselves, out of the particular situations we encounter. To this end each of us invents and re-invents an implicit theoretical framework which, be it well or badly designed, is our personal construct system. "In terms of this system we live, we anticipate events we determine our behaviour we ask our questions. It is in terms of this same system that we evaluate outcomes and elaborate changes in the interpretative system itself. Thus we are 'scientists' who derive hypotheses (have expectations) from our theories (our personal construing). We subject these hypotheses to experimental test (we bet on them behaviourally, we take active risks in terms of them). We observe the results of our experiments (we live with the outcomes of our behaviour). We modify our theory (we change our minds, we change ourselves) and so the cycle continues. "Kelly devised repertory grid technique as a method for exploring personal construct systems. It is an attempt to know oneself or to stand in another’s shoes, to see their world as they see it, to understand their situation, their concerns." Kind regards, Sean Brophy Dublin ___________ <em>Thanks to my long-time friend and colleague, Sean Brophy, for providing this succinct summation of George Kelly's model. Dr. Brophy is one of today's leading authorities in the application of George Kelly's model in organizational behavior as well as one-on-one personal and executive coaching.</em> Dear Dudley,

I was most pleased to see your reference to the work of the late George Kelly.

If they aren’t already acquainted with Dr. Kelly, your readers might like to know that the measurement tool used in the Psychology of Personal Constructs is called a role repertory grid. This is used to measure a person’s construing of people, things or events (their “psychological space”).

In the most comprehensive recent text on Kelly’s grid, A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique (John Wiley, 2004, p. 5), Fay Fransella, Richard Bell and Don Bannister described the model underlying Personal Construct Psychology this way:

“The model…is explicitly the idea of every person being his or her own scientist. George Kelly, the founder of this psychology, believed that we strive to make sense out of our universe, out of ourselves, out of the particular situations we encounter. To this end each of us invents and re-invents an implicit theoretical framework which, be it well or badly designed, is our personal construct system.

“In terms of this system we live, we anticipate events we determine our behaviour we ask our questions. It is in terms of this same system that we evaluate outcomes and elaborate changes in the interpretative system itself. Thus we are ’scientists’ who derive hypotheses (have expectations) from our theories (our personal construing). We subject these hypotheses to experimental test (we bet on them behaviourally, we take active risks in terms of them). We observe the results of our experiments (we live with the outcomes of our behaviour). We modify our theory (we change our minds, we change ourselves) and so the cycle continues.

“Kelly devised repertory grid technique as a method for exploring personal construct systems. It is an attempt to know oneself or to stand in another’s shoes, to see their world as they see it, to understand their situation, their concerns.”

Kind regards,
Sean Brophy
Dublin

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Thanks to my long-time friend and colleague, Sean Brophy, for providing this succinct summation of George Kelly’s model. Dr. Brophy is one of today’s leading authorities in the application of George Kelly’s model in organizational behavior as well as one-on-one personal and executive coaching.

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