Meaning of locus in English
(Definition of locus from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of locus
locus
So it would seem to follow that we don't need an external locus of control at all to succeed.
From Fast Company
If you lack any kind of external locus of control, you'll ignore the real power of real events and not make necessary adjustments when needed.
From Fast Company
Novelists write in order to investigate this locus, to discover its implications, and we are aware that novels are read in the same spirit.
From Huffington Post
Community is a locus of healing, not the hospital or the clinic.
From NPR
It should be pointed out that sequencing -- the term most familiar to an everyday consumer -- is no longer the locus of innovation.
From VentureBeat
Psychologists refer to this as locus of control, the extent to which people believe they can control the events that affect them.
From Fast Company
They have the same proteins in the histone locus body.
From Phys.Org
Effective self-managers will have an internal locus of control.
From Huffington Post
Psychologists refer to an individual's internal or external locus of control.
From Huffington Post
The third greatest mystery, in case you care, is the mystery of consciousness, its origin and locus, mind versus meat (brain).
From Slate Magazine
A person is a locus of engagement with the world.
From NPR
This approach helps children realize, from a young age, that their true compass and locus of truth, approval and love always lies within themselves.
From Huffington Post
Obviously, most of us don't operate with a locus that's completely internal or external.
From Fast Company
Locus of control, optimism and personal meaning constitute the triad of positive psychology.
From Huffington Post
It's that some fleshy circuit-breaker in his head has been knocked offline -- a sprained amygdala, a broken frontal lobe, a locus coeruleus in disrepair.
From Slate Magazine
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Collocations with locus
locus
These are words often used in combination with locus.
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external locus of control
The external locus of control subscale was reverse-scored and the two subscales were summed, with a higher score indicating greater internality.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
individual locus
The fitness effect of an individual locus now requires specification of the number of mutant alleles present (0, 1 or 2).
From the Cambridge English Corpus
internal locus of control
When the perceived competence (self-efficacy) element of autonomy is ignored, then an internal locus of control may appear a mixed good.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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