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Social Psychology, 7/e
David G Myers, Hope College
Behaviors and Attitudes

Chapter Outline

Do Attitudes Determine Behavior?

  1. Are We All Hypocrites?
  2. When Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
    1. Minimizing Social Influences on Expressed Attitudes
    2. Minimizing Other Influences on Behavior
    3. Examining Attitudes Specific to the Behavior
    4. Bringing Attitudes to Mind
    5. The Potency of Attitudes Forged Through Experience
    6. Some Conclusions

Does Behavior Determine Attitudes?

  1. Role Playing
  2. Saying Becomes Believing
  3. The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon
  4. Evil Acts and Attitudes
  5. Interracial Behavior and Racial Attitudes
  6. Social Movements

Why Do Actions Affect Attitudes?

  1. Self-Presentation: Impression Management
  2. Self-Justification: Cognitive Dissonance
    1. Insufficient Justification
    2. Dissonance After Decisions
  3. Self-Perception
    1. Overjustification and Intrinsic Motivations
  4. Comparing the Theories
    1. Dissonance as Arousal
    2. Self-Perceiving When Not Self-Contradicting

Personal Postscript: Changing Ourselves Through Action









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