#9967. Locus of Control and the Acknowledgment of Effort

September 2026publication date
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Cultural Studies;
Social Sciences (all);
Sociology and Political Science;
Education;
Social Psychology;
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Abstract:
What individual characteristics predict inequality acceptance? Previous literature has focused on economic and sociological determinants of accepting inequalities. Here, we present experimental evidence of one individual correlate of inequality acceptance: the personality trait known as locus of control. In our study, inequality is induced experimentally through the exogenous assignment to one of two experimental treatments. In one treatment, initial inequalities depend on individual performance in a previous real-effort task, that is, they are earned through effort, while in the other they are randomly determined.
Keywords:
distributive justice; laboratory experiment; locus of control; redistribution

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