Two separate replications were conducted to (a) examine the relationship among three popular assertions and (b) to test the hypothesis that subjects classified as internal subjects on Rotter's I-E scale would score higher than external subjects on the assertion inventories. Subjects were undergraduates in psychology classes. Moderate to high correlations among the inventories were obtained, and internality was related to assertion.
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