In psychology, it’s almost universally accepted that we want people to have an internal locus of control. The alternative? An external locus of control. Source: Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash ...

In traditional media environments, the main type of control available to consumers is to alter their own opinions and judgments or to approach or avoid the mass media message. Most research in the ...

Part One of this series quoted Wikipedia’s definition: “Locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them… Individuals with a high ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Sep. - Oct., 1976), pp. 45-49 (5 pages) Seventy-eight white lower-middle class 11th and 12th grade males participated in an experiment designed to ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 83, No. 3 (Jan. - Feb., 1990), pp. 140-146 (7 pages) This study examined the effects of student ability, locus of control, and type of instructional control ...

The genes TSPEAR and TRPM2 were screened for polymorphisms and mutations in bipolar subjects selected for having inherited polymorphisms associated with or linked to the chromosome 21q2.3 bipolar ...