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Kellian
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English
Etymology
From en Kelly -an.
Adjective
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en psychology Related to the work or theories of George Kelly, especially personal construct theory.
en 2012-12-06 Yvan Lebrun M. M. Leahy;T. Stewart Idiopathic Stuttering Onset in Adults From the Brain to the Mouth: Acquired Dysarthria and Dysfluency in Adults Springer Science & Business Media 9789401157766 142 Stewart and Grantham (1993) report that Client C commented upon feelings of Kellian guilt on a number of occasions: "I suppose I was mourning the loss of my 'old self', the person I was, because in order to cope I've had to change. I feared most of all a loss of identity, that C. would become 'the one who stammers'".
en 2017 Peter Cummins;Harry Procter;David Winter;Nick Reed David Dansky;Clare Morris Carsickness: Reconstruing Driving and Cycling Personal Construct Psychology at 60: Papers from the 21st International Congress Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781527500686 442 CTUK work with lorry drivers to help them subsume the experience of cyclists. Early in the training they are taken out on bicycles, on busy roads where they may experience Kellian threat first hand (drivers who are used to feeling protected inside a vehicle as opposed to sitting exposed on a bicycle), with significant shifts in their construing and driving.