unicate is that persons generally differ from one another in their construction of events. Moreover, each individual creates a construction system embracing hierarchial or ordinal relationships between constructs. For example, someone may have a "good" vs. "bad" construct which is superordinate to other evaluative dimensions such that goodness includes attributes like honesty, helpfulness, friendliness, and so on.
If this person experiences a contradiction in the evidence provided by subordinate constructs, as in the case of a politician who has always appeared helpful and friendly but who is now indicted for dishonesty, the dominant impression of "goodness" may nonetheless be regarded as validated by most of the available evidence, and the contradictory data may be suppressed. This suppression of contradictory data is said to arise due to the experience of anxiety that accompanies the perception that our construction system cannot account for all the available data.
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