Personal constructs are beliefs that individuals form based off how they anticipate interacting with others, how that actually interact with others and how they perceive their interactions. They are personal beliefs, theories, of how the world operates; that for automatically. It is possible for personal constructs to change and develop through eleven different corollaries: construction, experience, individuality, choice, sociality, commonality, organization, dichotomy, range, modulation and fragmentation. One of my personal constructs is: if I am nice to others, they will like me. I am going to use to illustrate how a personal construct can change by the different corollaries The first of which is the construction corollary.
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My construct changed along the lines of this corollary because of strangers on the metro. I often smile at strangers because it is a nice thing to do and I am almost always smiling anyway, so why not. But I have found that smiling at people on the metro is rarely received. It is ignored, whereas if I am walking somewhere I might get a smile or a wave in return. My construct adapted to exclude being nice to people on the metro from my original construct. People base their constructs of experiences; how people experience events is unique, which leads to the individuality corollary. Which is that individuals are unique in how they construct events. To me, smiling at strangers is nice, but when I have ridden the metro I have interacted with others who have wanted to be left alone, they have disagreed with …show more content…
For example, my construct -If I am nice to others, they will like me- doesn’t have to apply to individuals riding the metro. Instead it might only apply to school, work and other social interactions. Other individuals can also affect the construction of a personal construct. The sociality corollary is when we find a productive way to interact with someone by understanding their perspective. After being ignored by someone I smiled at, I make eye contact with someone else who smiles at me. We share the thought that smiling at strangers is
My construct changed along the lines of this corollary because of strangers on the metro. I often smile at strangers because it is a nice thing to do and I am almost always smiling anyway, so why not. But I have found that smiling at people on the metro is rarely received. It is ignored, whereas if I am walking somewhere I might get a smile or a wave in return. My construct adapted to exclude being nice to people on the metro from my original construct. People base their constructs of experiences; how people experience events is unique, which leads to the individuality corollary. Which is that individuals are unique in how they construct events. To me, smiling at strangers is nice, but when I have ridden the metro I have interacted with others who have wanted to be left alone, they have disagreed with …show more content…
For example, my construct -If I am nice to others, they will like me- doesn’t have to apply to individuals riding the metro. Instead it might only apply to school, work and other social interactions. Other individuals can also affect the construction of a personal construct. The sociality corollary is when we find a productive way to interact with someone by understanding their perspective. After being ignored by someone I smiled at, I make eye contact with someone else who smiles at me. We share the thought that smiling at strangers is