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Recently, while Cathy was working as a volunteer for the Red Cross her supervisor requested that she make telephone calls in an attempt to persuade people to donate blood. In spite of her efforts, she was unable to persuade anyone to donate blood.
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Anderson, C.A., Deuser, W.E. (1993). The Primacy of Control in Causal Thinking and Attributional Style: An Attributional Functionalism Perspective. In: Weary, G., Gleicher, F., Marsh, K.L. (eds) Control Motivation and Social Cognition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8309-3_4
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