In 1966, Julian Lott, an American psychologist, published a paper introducing the concept of control point. According to Lott, humans can be divided into two basic categories:The people who always do internal attribution are also called internal controllers. They believe that it is man-made. They attribute success to their own efforts and failure to their own negligence. They believe that people's destiny is in their own hands.People who always make external attribution are also called external controllers. They attribute success to luck and failure to destiny. They believe that people's fate is controlled by the environment.