James Bieri

James Beiri is a psychologist who, in 1955, was the first to propose the organization of constructs and their similarity.

He developed the idea of cognitive complexity. [cite web | last =Bell | first =R.C. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Cognitive complexity | work =The Internet Encyclopaedia of Personal Construct Psychology | publisher =The Psychology of Personal Constructs | date =2004-02-14
url =http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/cogcom.html | format =html | doi = | accessdate =2007-02-20] He based his work on what he learned from George Kelly and personal construct psychology while he was a graduate student under Kelly. [cite web | last =Bieri | first =J. | authorlink = | coauthors =Atkins A L, Briar S, Leaman R L, Miller H & Tripodi T. | title =Clinical and social judgment: The discrimination of behavioral information | work = | publisher =University of Pennsylvania | date =1980-09-08 | url =http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1980/A1980KE57300001.pdf | format =pdf | doi = | accessdate =2007-02-20]

The son of an Admiral, James Bieri served in the U.S. Navy before becoming a clinical psychologist.

He obtained a degree and Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1950 and then taught at Harvard, Columbia, Brooklyn and finally as Professor of Psychology for the Training Program at the University of Texas at Austin.

After retirement he embarked on a thorough biography of the poet Shelley which was published in two volumes in 2005 by the University of Delaware Press. It contains much new information, including about the poet's friend Sophia Stacey.

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