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An issue that has plagued social and personality psychology for decades is the lack of consistency between people’s self-reports and their overt behavior. Whether the self-reports be of attitudes or traits, the predictive relationships from such measures to the actions that they might reasonably be expected to influence is frequently quite poor (e.g., Calder & Ross, 1973; Mischel, 1968, 1973; Schuman & Johnson, 1976; Wicker, 1969, 1971). The weakness of such relationships has even led some theorists to question the utility of the attitude construct (cf. Abelson, 1972), and has led others to suggest that attitudes only follow from behavior, rather than influencing the course of behavior (cf. Bern, 1972).
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Carver, C.S., Scheier, M.F. (1981). Relationship Between Self-Report and Behavior. In: Attention and Self-Regulation. SSSP Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5887-2_14
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