My daughter had just pulled the caramel corn out of the oven, and the sticky-sweet smell was almost irresistible. Despite knowing it wasn’t going to help my diet, I was gnawing for a taste. But ...

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 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 ...

Do you think that the events in your life — getting hired or getting fired, falling in or out of love, moving from one city to another — are due to your actions or some outside power? How you answer ...

Does your business success or failure depend on what you do? Or what the world does to you? Your answer will depend on what your own personal “locus of control” happens to be. Locus of control is a ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As Mother Teresa famously said, "To work without love is slavery." She was speaking about ...