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David McClelland  

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  • David McClelland was an American personality psychologist known for his research on implicit achievement motivation and later his studies of implicit power motivation. He was educated at Wesleyan University, the University of Missouri, and Yale University. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Mcclelland, David (1917–1998)]

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