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The prior chapters in this last portion of the book have shown the value of the development and generic change models that I have created. In the last chapter of the book, I create a different generic model on behavioral causality that is not step-based. It covers distal, proximal, and triggering causes in behavior. I apply it to rework the three models that helped in creating them (on neuroticism, action/self-control, and self-definition/relatedness). Then, I show its value in helping to understand the origins of free will (free being, believing in free will, having a sense of free will), depletion in self-control, and PTSD. Potentially, the model has wide applicability in indicating the multifactorial causation in behavior, in general, and how it could be conceptualized and researched.
To close the last chapter and the book, I present further modeling of behavioral causality, this time returning to my generic change model for the most part. I apply it to free will, in particular, but also to growth in modeling and change mechanisms.
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Young, G. (2016). New Directions in Psychological Causality. In: Unifying Causality and Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24094-7_36
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