ABSTRACT
Cognitive integration is a broad concept that is used to refer to several characteristics
of construing of a domain that are related to the structural relationships between
constructs. Within repertory grid research these structural features are mapped using
statistical procedures such as cluster analysis. Thus, this would include the hierarchical
relationships between attitudes or beliefs, the probability that some views constitute
a core which is relatively impermeable to change, whereas more peripheral attitudes
may be more amenable to disconfirmation. Another aspect of cognitive integration
is the degree of predilection of an individual to hold attitudes towards a subject
that fall towards the extreme ends of bipolar constructs. Later in the chapter (p.
