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Peer reviewedGootnick, Andrew T – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Two instruments concerned with the locus of control variable, Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control scale and Coan's Personal Opinion Survey are compared to see how each could predict political participation of a newly enfranchised college population in a presidential election year. Different theoretical approaches of the scales are…
Descriptors: Activism, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Locus of Control
Download full textDuncan, Joan; Laird, James D. – 1976
Individual differences in self-attributions in a forced-compliance task and following manipulations of facial expressions were found to relate, suggesting that the self-attribution processes are similar and that variations among individuals in these processes are general across contents and inputs. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
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
