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Choosing social situations: Investigating the origins of correspondence between attitudes and behavior
Author(s) -
Snyder Mark,
Kendzierski Deborah
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1982.tb00751.x
Subject(s) - social psychology , psychology , action (physics) , dispose pattern , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
By choosing to enter and spend time in those social situations that will dispose them to perform the actions implied by their personal attitudes, individuals may generate correspondence between their attitudes and their behavior. To investigate this process, we allowed individuals to choose whether to enter and spend time in a social situation that supported the behavioral expression of attitudes favorable toward affirmative action. For low‐self‐monitoring individuals, those with favorable attitudes toward affirmative action were substantially more willing than were those with unfavorable attitudes to enter and spend time in this social situation. For high self‐monitoring individuals, willingness to enter and spend time in this social situation was unrelated to personal attitudes toward affirmative action; at the same time, high self‐monitoring females were more likely than high self‐monitoring males to choose to enter and to spend time in this social situation. Implications of these findings for understanding the links between self‐monitoring processes and the origins of correspondence between attitudes and behavior were discussed.