RE: attitudes, beliefs & constructs

Brenda LeFrancois (blf1@tizard.ukc.ac.uk)
Wed, 13 May 1998 10:54:35 +0100

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Hi All,

This has been a useful interchange for me as well. I'm wondering,
though, if you can tell me if laddering down and pyramiding are the
same thing or if they are different, in what way?

Thanks,
Brenda.

Laddering down does as John mention enable one to obtain a more
behaviourally explicit expression of a construct; but any one construct

will have _several_ "laddered-down" constructs: a variety of
behaviourally more explicit expressions. Helen Jones calls this the
process of elucidating all these, "pyramiding", andTrevor Butt did a
useful summary of laddering up, laddering down, and pyramiding, with a
brief procedural guide, in the Newsletter of the European Personal
Construct Society a couple of years ago. When I get home from the
office
tonight I'llsnail-mail you a copy.

Kind regards,

Devi Jankowicz

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