Kelly, George Alexander - Critical Response
Critical Response
While Kelly met with praise from the reviews of psychologists such as Carl Rogers and Jerome Bruner, he certainly met with criticism as well. According to the Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, the major objections of the time of publication and into a new century centered around three major arguments, as directly quoted:
- The theory had relatively little to offer on the issues of growth and development.
- It is not specific about the motivational basis for many people's decisions (i.e., the connections between construct systems and motivational forces are obscure).
- In dispensing with the distinction between cognition and emotion, his theory underemphasizes the role played by emotional and affective factors.
The third argument was one to which Kelly particularly took exception. He emphasized that any such perceived neglect of...
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