The Eleven Corollaries by George Kelley

 Construction corollary

    Because repeated events are similar, we can predict or anticipate how we will experience such an event in the future. 

Individual corollary

    People perceive events in different ways. 

Organization corollary 

    We arrange our constructs in patterns, according to our views of their similarities and differences .

Dichotomy corollary 

    Constructs are bipolar and consists as pairs as opposite. 

For example: good – bad 

Choice corollary 

    A person chooses for himself that alternatives in a dichotomized constructs through which he anticipates the greater possibility for extension and definition of his system.

Range corollary 

    A constructs is convenient for the anticipation of a finite range of events only. 

Experience corollary 

    We continually test our constructs against life’s experience to make sure they remain useful. 

Modulation corollary 

    We may modify our constructs as a function of new experiences. 

Fragmentation corollary 

    A person may successively employ a variety of construction subsystem which are inferentially incompatible with each other 

Commonality corollary 

    A person may successively employ a variety of construction subsystems which are inferentially incompatible with each other. 

Socially corollary 

    We try to understand how other people think and predict what they will do , and we modify our behavior accordingly. 

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