"construct theory" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used in academic and scientific contexts to refer to a particular theory that explains how people make sense of the world by assigning meaning to objects, situations, and events. For example: "Social psychologists have used construct theory to explain how cultural values shape an individual's beliefs and behaviors."
For conceptualizing conflicts, personal construct theory acknowledges that humans may employ a variety of constructions which are inferentially incompatible with each other (Kelly's fragmentation corollary).
Accordingly, a personal construct theory based product configuration analysis method is proposed in this work.
Personal construct theory (which underpins the repertory grid technique) is introduced, and the technique and its administration is discussed.
Dorothy became increasingly doubtful about the "medical model" of mental illness, analysing it in terms of physical causes, and instead looked towards the personal construct theory, developed by George Kelly.
In the "personal construct" theory of American psychologist George Kelly and the "self-centred" theory of American psychotherapist Carl Rogers, individuals are said to perceive the world according to their own experiences.
His interests led to a restless exploration of a range of therapeutic models: psychoanalysis, family therapy, behaviourism, early cognitive psychology (including Kelly's personal construct theory), and later, inspired by his colleague Mikael Leiman in Finland, Lev Vygotsky and Mikhail Bakhtin's notions of a self formed interpersonally and through dialogue.
Scientists are also still struggling to construct theories about how arrays of individual neurons relate complex behaviors, even in principle.
Accordingly, they attempt to construct theories that are synoptic, descriptively accurate, explanatorily powerful, and in all other respects rationally defensible.
Attempts have been made by de Broglie, David Bohm, and others to construct theories based on hidden variables, but the theories are very complicated and contrived.
Nearly all human beings wish to comprehend the world they live in, and many of them construct theories of various kinds to help them make sense of it.
In the century after his death his data-first approach fell out of favour; it seemed purer to construct theories first, then test them against data.
