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Implicit psychologists' estimates of attitude‐behaviour consistencies
Author(s) -
Six Bernd,
Krahé Barbara
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420140107
Subject(s) - psychology , consistency (knowledge bases) , social psychology , internal consistency , sample (material) , implicit attitude , developmental psychology , psychometrics , mathematics , geometry , chemistry , chromatography
To investigate the relationship between implicit psychological hypotheses and explicit empirical findings, summaries of twenty published studies on attitude‐behaviour consistency were presented to a sample of forty‐eight psychology undergraduates. Subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of agreement between attitudes and behaviour obtained by each study. Correlations between subjects' covariation judgements and empirically obtained attitude‐behaviour consistencies were minimal and nonsignificant. Results are discussed in the light of more recent research on attitude‐behaviour relationship.