It is the subject of academic study in fields including personal construct psychology,[1] organisational theory[2] and human–computer interaction.
[3] First proposed by James Bieri in 1955[1] with Cognitive complexity-simplicity and predictive behavior which was published that year in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.
The significant gap between both complexities (hard to produce, easy to describe) makes the encounter improbable and thus narratable.
A person who is measured high on cognitive complexity tends to perceive nuances and subtle differences while a person with a lower measure, indicating a less complex cognitive structure for the task or activity, does not.
an aspect of a person's cognitive functioning which at one end is defined by the use of many constructs with many relationships to one another (complexity) and at the other end by the use of few constructs with limited relationships to one another (simplicity) It is used as part of one of the several variations of the viable non-empirical evaluation model GOMS (goals, operators, methods, and selection rules); in particular the GOMS/CCT methodology.