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| Attitudes and behavior: The attitude-behavior gap in psychology arises from inconsistencies between expressed attitudes and actual behavior. Since attitudes are influenced by external factors, social context and individual differences, behavior cannot be reliably predicted from them. See also Attitudes, Beliefs, Behavior, Social behavior._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Richard LaPiere on Attitudes and Behavior - Dictionary of Arguments
Haslam I 27 Attitudes and behavior/hospitality study/LaPiere: Initially, researchers simply assumed that there would be a strong correspondence between attitudes and action. Indeed, one of the reasons that individuals are interested in knowing the attitudes of others is precisely because of this assumption: if you know how a person feels about an issue, then this should be a good basis for predicting (and perhaps understanding) how they are going to behave in relation to that issue. (…) a single piece of research (…) produced a particularly dramatic disconfirmation of the attitude–behaviour link: Richard LaPiere’s (1934)(1) hospitality study. LaPiere found a strong divergence in the rejection of strangers depending on whether he asked hotels for rooms in writing or spoke in person at hotels accompanied by Chinese. Def Attitude/LaPiere: ‘a social attitude is a behaviour pattern [exhibited in response to] … designated social situations’ (1934(1): p. 230). In other words, he reasoned that one can only determine how an individual feels about a particular attitude object by observing the individual’s response in relevant social situations. Haslam I 28 [LaPiere’s] rationale for looking at hotel policies was that, for economic reasons, hotel proprietors might be motivated to reflect the broader attitudes of society at the time – in particular, wanting to ensure that their White clientele were not offended by the hotel’s policy of admitting or rejecting non-White guests. >Attitudes and Behavior/psychological theories, >Attitudes/psychological theories. 1. LaPiere, R.T. (1934) ‘Attitudes versus actions’, Social Forces, 13: 230–7. Joanne R. Smith and Deborah J. Terry, “Attitudes and Behavior. Revisiting LaPiere’s hospitality study”, in: Joanne R. Smith and S. Alexander Haslam (eds.) 2017. Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies. London: Sage Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
LaPiere, Richard Haslam I S. Alexander Haslam Joanne R. Smith Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies London 2017 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-29