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Do Locus of Control and Big Five Personality Traits Account for Individual Differences in Social Influence on Agency Judgments?

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Journal of Personality

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Abstract

["Journal of Personality, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 277-288, April 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\n\nObjective\nThe sense of agency might be jointly affected by situational and interindividual factors. In this study, we examined whether personality traits and control beliefs can explain individual differences in both (1) sense of agency and (2) susceptibility of agency judgments to social influence.\n\n\nMethod\nTo do so, we used measures of the Big Five Personality Traits and Levenson's Locus of Control in combination with a task based on an interactive computer game, which we submitted to a large cohort of online participants (N = 562). We manipulated sensorimotor agency cues related to action control as well as social information communicated to participants.\n\n\nResults\nOur results show that while locus of control beliefs are related to differences in sense of agency, neither Big Five personality traits nor locus of control beliefs can account for differences in susceptibility to social influence.\n\n\nConclusion\nLocus of control and Big Five personality traits can account for some differences in sense of agency, but not for differences in belief alignment.\n\n"]