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Do Attitudes Determine our Behavior?
    1. Are We All Hypocrites?
    2. When Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
  1. When Social Influences on What we say are Minimal
  2. When Other Influences on Behavior are Minimal
  3. When Attitudes Specific to the Behavior are Examined
  4. When Attitudes are Potent
When Does Behavior Determine Attitudes?
    1. Role Playing
    2. Saying Becomes Believing
    3. The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon
  1. Real Life Applications
    4. Evil Acts and Attitudes
    5. Interracial Behavior and Racial Attitudes
    6. Social Movements
Why Does our Behavior Affect our Attitudes?
    1. Self-Presentation: Impression Management
    2. Self-Justification: Cognitive Dissonance
  1. Insufficient Justification
  2. Dissonance After Decisions
    3. Self-Perception
  1. Expressions and Attitude
  2. 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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