In the context of research on Kelly's theory, which of the following statements is true of the effects of one's emotional state?
a. People evaluate others according to their own personal characteristics.
c. First-time patients in psychiatric hospitals construe their social network as limited.
b. Delinquents tend to identify with fictional negative characters rather than real-life adults.
d. The REP Test is unreliable on those with organic brain damage.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Research showed a correspondence between one's personal characteristics and the ways of construing other people. For example, among a group of student nurses, those identified as highly anxious tended to use anxious versus non-anxious as a construct for evaluating others.
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