equifinality

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Two concepts in the social sciences and psychiatry are useful: the idea of equifinality and the idea of multifinality.

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  • How true that equifinality applies to both climate and death. —  RealClimate
  • Two concepts in the social sciences and psychiatry are useful: the idea of equifinality and the idea of multifinality. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The caveat is that human behavior can be expected to exhibit both equifinality and multifinality, and this needs to be kept in mind in any attempt to isolate causes. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The model specifies a range of implementation outcomes (including resistance, avoidance, compliance, and commitment); highlights the equifinality of an organization's climate for implementation; describes within - and between-organizational differences in innovation-values fit; and suggests new topics and strategies for implementation research. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • [7] J. Mathieu, T. Heffner, G. Goodwin, J. Cannon-Bowers, and E. Salas, "Scaling the quality of teammates 'mental models: equifinality and normative comparisons," Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 26, pp. 37-56, 2005.
 

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