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de Man, Anton; Ratti, Lucie LeMay – Social Behavior and Personality, 1989
Studied relationships among repression-sensitization and Levenson's three dimensions of perceived contingency (internal, powerful others, and chance) in college students (N=70). Found relationship between sensitization and belief in powerful others appeared to depend on the presence of a belief in chance control. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Feinberg, Richard A.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Two experiments investigated the relationship between the magnitude of motivation for control over the environment and tendency to derogate victims. Manipulated situational controllability and uncontrollability within a learned helplessness procedure and assessed derogation of a victimized stranger. Results indicated that motivation and need for…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, College Students, Expectation