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#787 Kennon Sheldon - Freely Determined; The New Psychology of the Self, and How to Live

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The Three Free Will Relevant Personality Styles That Affect People

Self-determination theory is a research approach that came out in the mid 1980s. Causality orientations theory and then you associate with it three free will relevant personality styles or traits autonomy orientation control orientation and impersonal orientation. So an autonomy oriented person goes through life looking for opportunities to make choices. And so that's how they're trying to make choices in life. The third orientation called impersonal orientation these are people that don't even have agency they just feel helpless.

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