Dr Aris is a junior researcher at a pharmaceutical lab. He is instructed by the lead laboratory director to omit a minor outlier from a clinical trial data report. Dr Aris complies and deletes the data point.
Psychologists have investigated the role of personality, such as locus of control, in obedience.
Explain how Dr Aris's locus of control may have affected his obedience in deleting the data point.
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