St. George's Griddles

Reviews the book, Explorations of Intrapersonal Space: The Measurement of Intrapersonal Space by Grid Technique, Vol. I edited by Patrick Slater (1976). This book was designed to exhibit the utility of the Grid Analysis Package that Slater has developed at St. George's Hospital Medical School....

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Published inContemporary psychology Vol. 22; no. 10; pp. 759 - 761
Main Author LITTLE, BRIAN R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.10.1977
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Human
Personal Space
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Summary:Reviews the book, Explorations of Intrapersonal Space: The Measurement of Intrapersonal Space by Grid Technique, Vol. I edited by Patrick Slater (1976). This book was designed to exhibit the utility of the Grid Analysis Package that Slater has developed at St. George's Hospital Medical School. Grids are basically a sorting task in which people compare and contrast a set of elements (e.g., the names of acquaintances) along a set of bipolar constructs of their own construction (e.g., intelligent-dull). In the present volume, each chapter takes a different area of behavioral research and shows how Slater's techniques and related methods have illuminated issues in that area. On balance, the editor deserves credit for both clarifying and creating some of the problems with which personal construct theorists must soon struggle. As a detailed, diverse, and authoritative survey of grid technique, it closes out a vital second decade of personal construct research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
ISSN:0010-7549
DOI:10.1037/015477