The personality variable of internal-external locus of control and the situational condition variables of chance, moderate-skill, and high-skill conditions were investigated in the context of an angle-matching task with 184 volunteer college students. As predicted, the situational condition (instructional set) effect was more powerful than the I-E personality effect on both actual and estimated performance. The performance of external Ss was less consistent across situational conditions than that of internal Ss for both measures.
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