Behaviors and
Attitudes
When Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
 | Minimizing social influences on expressed attitudes |
| Minimizing other influences on behavior |
| Examining attitudes specific to the behavior |
| Making attitudes potent |
Does Behavior Determine Attitudes?
| Role playing |
| Saying becomes believing |
| The foot-in-the-door phenomenon |
| Evil acts and attitudes |
| Interracial behavior and attitudes |
| Social movements |
| "For where your treasure is, there your heart
will be also." Matthew 6:21 |
Why Do Actions Affect Attitudes?
| Self-Presentation Theory |
| Cognitive dissonance theory
 | Insufficient justification
 | "One of the worst results of being a slave and
being forced to do things is that when there is none to force you any more you find you
have almost lost the power of forcing yourself." C. S. Lewis |
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| Dissonance after decisions |
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Why Do Actions Affect Attitudes?
| Self-perception theory
| Overjustification and intrinsic motivations |
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| Comparing the theories
| Dissonance as arousal |
| Self-perceiving when not self-contradicting |
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