Implicit psychologists' estimates of attitude-behaviour consistencies

✍ Scribed by Bernd Six; Barbara Krahé

• Book ID: 102829681
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 559 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-2772
• DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2420140107

✦ Synopsis

To investigate the relationship between implicit psychological hypotheses and explicit empirical findings, summaries of twenty published studies on attitude-behaviour consistency were presented to a sample of forty-eight psychology undergraduates. Subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of agreement between attitudes and behaviour obtained by each study. Correlations between subjects' covariation judgements and empirically obtained attitude-behaviour consistencies were minimal and nonsignificant. Results are discussed in the light of more recent research on attitudebehaviour relationship.