PSY 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Implicit-Association Test, Implicit Stereotype, Small Favor
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Social psychology chapter 4-behavior and attitudes: attitude- a favorable or unfavorable evaluative reaction toward something or someone (often rooted in one"s beliefs, and exhibited in one"s feelings and intended behavior) How well do our attitudes predict our behavior: studies present an appealing task with a possible reward and a dull task with no rewards. The participants had to assign themselves to one of the tasks and a supposed second participant to the other. Only 1 in 20 believed that assigning the positive task to themselves was the more moral thing to do, yet 80% did so anyways: the developing picture of what controls behavior emphasized external social influences, attitudes and personality. Thus, the original thesis that attitudes determine actions was countered during the 1960s by the antithesis that attitudes determine virtually nothing. When attitudes predict behavior: the reason why our behavior and our expressed attitudes differ is that both are subject to other influences.