Re: Laddering and Pyramiding- a Description and Bibliography

Gary Blanchard (garyb@pics.com)
Tue, 21 May 1996 11:55:21 -0700

Jack Adams-Webber wrote:
>
> > Dennis Hinkle first developed the laddering technique in 1965 at Ohio
> >University in his masters thesis.
>
> It was his Ph.D. Dissertation
>
> >It was never published and will be found
> >in the stacks.
>
> and also University Microfilms, University of Michigan.
>
> >It is often cited, seldom found or read except at the large
> >universities. It remains an important paper and is certainly for me one of
> >the most useful techniques.
>
> There is a comprehensive and accurate summary of Hinkle's dissertation in
> Bannister & Mair (1968). The evaluation of personal constructs. London:
> Academic Press. pp. 78-96 (essentially the whole of Chapter 3).
>
> You will find a detailed crtique of Hinkle's dissertation in Adams-Webber,
> J. (1979). Personal construct theory. NY: Wiley, pp. 56-58
>
> More recent reliability and validity data are reported by McDonagh,
> D.(1987). The implication potential of personal constructs in relation to
> their subjective importance and order of elicitation. Social Behavior and
> Personality, 15, 81-86.
>
> JA-W
>
> Jack Adams-Webber Tel: 905 (688) 5544 [x 3714]
> Department of Psychology Fax: 905 (688) 6922
> Brock University E-mail: jadams@spartan.ac.brocku.ca
> St. Catharines, Ontario
> CANADA L2S 3A1

Dear Jack

Thanks for your posting. I know nothing about this methodology, and
won't ask you to summarize it for me. But I would greatly appreciate
your professional assessment of its pros and cons, and what your own
bottom line is regarding it. Thanks......Gary

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