Luck is alive and well in New Haven: A serendipitous finding on perceived control of reinforcement after the draft lottery.

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

Julian B. Rotter · The Psychological Monographs · 1966 · 21.9K citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +7

Alienation and Learning in a Hospital Setting

Melvin Seeman, John Evans · American Sociological Review · 1962 · 413 citations

Medicine, Social Psychology, Hospital Medicine +11

children's feelings of personal control as related to social class and ethnic group1

Esther S. Battle, Julian B. Rotter · Journal of Personality · 1963 · 390 citations

Social Sciences, Human Development, Social Psychology +10

Internal versus external control of reinforcement and decision time.

Julian B. Rotter, Ray C. Mulry · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1965 · 337 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +14

A personality correlate of social action1

Pearl Mayo Gore, Julian B. Rotter · Journal of Personality · 1963 · 297 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +11