PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Church Attendance, Stanford Prison Experiment, Overjustification Effect
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Attitude favourable/unfavourable evaluative reactions toward something. Rooted in beliefs & exhibited in feelings & inclinations to act. Allan wicker expressed attitudes hardly predicted varying behaviours. Student attitudes toward cheating little relation to likelihood of actual cheating. Attitudes toward church modestly linked w/ church attendance on any given sunday. Self described racial attitudes little clue to behaviours in actual situations. Say they would be upset if someone making racist remarks but actually. Batson moral hypocrisy respond indifferently irl. Appealing task & dull task assign themselves to one task & assign other to supposed 2nd participant. Only 1 in 20 believed assigning positive task to themselves was most moral thing to do but 80% did. Toss coin to assign roles (privately if they wanted to) 90% assigned themselves the positive task. Even w/ sticker on each side indicating what the outcome meant still large majority assigned positive to themselves. 40 separate factors that complicate relationship btw behaviour & attitudes.
