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Kellian

Kellian adjective: related to the work or theories of George Kelly, especially personal construct theory.

Adjective

Kellian (not comparable)

  1. Related to the work or theories of George Kelly, especially personal construct theory.
    • 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...2012 December 6, M. M. Leahy, T. Stewart, “Idiopathic Stuttering Onset in Adults”, in Yvan Lebrun, editor, From the Brain to the Mouth: Acquired Dysarthria and Dysfluency in Adults, Springer Science...
    • 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...2017, David Dansky, Clare Morris, “Carsickness: Reconstruing Driving and Cycling”, in Peter Cummins, Harry Procter, David Winter, Nick Reed, editors, Personal Construct Psychology at 60: Papers from...

Origin of Kellian

From Kelly + -an.

Questions about Kellian

What does Kellian mean?
Kellian means related to the work or theories of George Kelly, especially personal construct theory.
What part of speech is Kellian?
Kellian is an adjective.

Words near Kellian in the dictionary

  1. Kelleys
  2. Kelleys Island
  3. Kelleytown
  4. Kelli
  5. kellia
  6. Kellian
  7. Kellianne
  8. kellidar
  9. kellidars
  10. Kellie
  11. kellies

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