Two social predictions based individually on the personal constructs of 23 adults were subjected to different levels of invalidation in a replication study. The nonreplication suggests that high invalidation does not effect more change in stereotyped than independent constructs; the meaning of the steretotype may make it either more or less open to reconstructions. Methodological issues relating to the replication attempt are discussed.
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