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Internal‐External Control and Reaction to the My Lai Courts‐Martial
Author(s) -
Hochreich Dorothy J.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1972.tb01283.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , social psychology , control (management) , martial arts , government (linguistics) , management , history , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics , economics
This study sought to investigate the relationship between a personality variable, internal‐external control of reinforcement, and reactions of college students to the My Lai courts‐martial. It was hypothesized that externak would bc more likely than internals to underplay the individual responsibility of Calley and his men, projecting most of the blamc for what happcncd at My Lai onto the US. government and military establishment. Strong support for the hypothesized relationship between I‐E and assibmment of responsibility for the My Lai events was found for University of Connccticut males, but not for females.