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Goggin, William C. – 1981
A model of persuasion suggests that individuals comply with a prediction of their behavior because they are persuaded by that prediction; a model of threat suggests that they defy prediction because of its threat of control. College students with either internal (N=20) or external (N=20) loci of control were informed of the accuracy of the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavioral Science Research, Expectation, Individual Differences
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Wollman, Neil; Stouder, Robin – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Presents four studies using a criterion measure of political activity to compare overall (locus of control), political, and situation-specific believed efficacy. Reports that the more situation specific the feelings of efficacy, the greater the predictability of political behavior. Concludes that even situation-specific efficacy did not predict…
Descriptors: Activism, Expectation, Higher Education, Individual Power