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Reciprocal Determinism

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Bandura's reciprocal determinism holds that behavior, personal factors, and environment each continuously influence the other two.

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An outgoing person selects sociable environments, which reinforce the outgoing behavior, which shapes their beliefs.

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The model refuses to locate a single cause. That is its point and the reason it is hard to test cleanly.