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The Influence of Attitudes on Behavior

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The authors reviewed major meta-analyses of the attitude-behavior relation and found that general attitudes toward policies, people, institutions, and events correlate well with general behavioral patterns but not with specific behaviors.
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Work on general attitudes has drawn attention to the roles of attitude accessibility, controlled versus automatic information processing, and biases in information processing produced by automatically activated general attitudes towards objects. However, early failures to demonstrate strong attitude-behavior relations were shown to be attributable to incompatibility in the level of generality at which these variables were assessed. General attitudes toward policies, people, institutions, and events correlate well with general behavioral patterns but not with specific behaviors. Predicting specific actions requires a measure of attitude toward the behavior itself, as in the reasoned action approach, which takes specific behavior as its starting point and identifies intentions, attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioral control as important determinants. In addition to discussing those topics, this chapter reviews major meta-analyses of the attitude-behavior relation.

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Trending Questions (3)
Is behavior and attitude the same?

Behavior and attitude are distinct concepts. Attitudes influence behavior, but specific actions require attitude towards the behavior itself, as per the reasoned action approach discussed in the paper.

How is attitude towards war related to behavior?

Attitudes towards war are generally linked to broad behavioral patterns, but predicting specific actions requires assessing attitudes towards the specific behavior itself, as per the reasoned action approach.

What extraneous variables can affect the relationship between attitude and behavior?

Extraneous variables like attitude accessibility, information processing, and level of generality can influence the relationship between attitude and behavior, as discussed in the paper.