PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Personal Flotation Device, Powdered Milk, Coffee Preparation
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Some studies about attitudes and behaviour found: student attitudes toward cheating bore little relation to the likelihood of their actual cheating attitudes toward the church were only modestly linked with church attendance on any given sunday. But religious attitudes predict quite well the total quantity of religious behaviours over time self-described racial attitudes provided little clue to behaviours in actual situations. Many people say they express being upset with someone making racist remarks yet when they hear racism they respond differently. Present p"s with an appealing task and a dull task. They could choose to do either one while making a second p do the other one they didn"t pick. Most people believe that assigning the positive task to themselves was the most moral thing to do yet the majority of them gave themselves the positive task ( moral hypocrisy ).
