Attitudes versus actions: Lapiere's (1934) classic study revisited
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- attitudes, actions, relationship, Lapiere, critique
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LaPiere’s (1934) seminal research into the attitude-behavior relationship has been commonly misinterpreted as pointing to a discrepancy between attitudes and behavior. In fact, the actual discrepancy uncovered was between true attitudes – the tendency to act in a certain way – and that which is measured by an attitude questionnaire. LaPiere’s primary concern was to point out the danger of assuming that questionnaire-assessed “attitudes” lead to actual behavior in specific situations. In the present paper we theoretically and methodologically critique LaPiere’s classic study.
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- 1989-02-01
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- Volume 17, 1989, Issue 1
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