When something goes wrong, it’s natural to cast blame on the perceived cause of the misfortune. Where an individual casts that blame can be related, in many cases, to a psychological construct known ...

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 ...

American psychologist Julian Rotter developed the concept of "locus of control" in the 1950s, describing it as "the degree to which a person perceives an outcome as being contingent on their own ...

We all want to bend the world to our will, but more often than not, it is the other way around – a fact that we often fail to recognize. This tendency to exaggerate our ability to influence events is ...

Locus of Control”, a deeply resonant poetry collection by Rebecca Herz. TEANECK, NJ, UNITED STATES, January 28, 2026 ...

Determinism is linked to the idea of causality, which is the relationship between cause and effect. Under certain conditions, an event will cause an outcome. Determinists believe that much of what ...