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# Julian Rotter

## Profile

American psychologist who, in the 1950s and formalized in his 1966 *Psychological Monographs* paper, identified and operationalized the concept of **Locus of Control**. His Internal-External (I-E) Scale is foundational in personality and social psychology.

Canonical reference: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1967-12505-001

## Role in This Source

The foundational citation for the speaker's [[concept-high-agency]] reframe. Without Rotter's work, the speaker's argument that high agency is *not a feeling but a psychological orientation* would lack its anchor.

## Connections in This Vault

- Frames the construct: [[concept-high-agency]]
- Underwrites the empirical claim: [[claim-internal-locus-performance]] (Ng et al. 2006 meta-analysis builds directly on Rotter's I-E Scale)
- Inspires the diagnostic: [[framework-locus-of-control]]

## Adjacent Theory

Bandura's self-efficacy (1997) extends Rotter's framework. Modern personality psychology treats locus of control as a moderator rather than a binary.