UNED Constructivist Research Group
We investigate how people make sense of their experience and how their meaning systems change. We connect constructivist psychology, assessment, psychotherapy, mathematical modelling and technology.
Our research
Five connected research lines
From personal experience to models that help us understand it: research combining theoretical questions, methods and applications.
Constructivist psychology and personal meaning systems
How people construct their experience and make sense of their world. →
Psychological change processes, psychotherapy and health
Understanding and facilitating change in clinical and health settings. →
Psychological assessment and development of constructivist methodologies
Methods for exploring experience from each person’s perspective. →
Mathematical modelling, complex systems and the dynamics of psychological change
Representing meaning networks and studying their relationships and transformations. →
Artificial intelligence and technologies applied to psychological research and practice
Developing and studying technological tools in the service of psychology. →
Virtual laboratory
PsychLab
A space connecting research on personal meaning systems with tool development, training and psychological practice.
Exploration and assessment of personal meanings.
Methods and tools for studying change.
Bringing research, training and practice together.
From the group
Research we share
A selection of our recent news, publications and methodological developments.
event integration and well-being through repertory grids and laddering
A study with 101 students examines constructivist indicators, integration of pandemic experiences and psychological well-being.
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WimpGrid, a weighted implication grid for studying psychological change
WimpGrid represents anticipated implications between constructs as a directed, weighted network, connecting constructivist interviewing and graph theory.
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generative AI in constructivist psychotherapy and clinical supervision
Luis Botella and Luis Ángel Saúl explore how AI can support case conceptualisation and supervision under the therapist’s responsibility.
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Complementary perspectives
A multidisciplinary team bringing together psychology, methodology, engineering and health sciences to study personal meaning systems.
Meet the team →Scientific work
Knowledge to build on
Research papers and doctoral theses presenting our theoretical, methodological and applied contributions.
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