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“These theories constitute that individuals have only weak inherent attitudes and rather form their attitudes by self-observations.”
From AI-based chatbots in customer service and their effects on user compliance (2021) · cites this paper as Bem 1972
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“This awareness might increase with age based on experiences with own behavior and feedback of others (Bem, 1972; Brummelman & Thomaes, 2017).”
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“Cognitive-dissonance and self-perception theories suggest that by encouraging them to help solve the problem, employers help managers to think of themselves as proponents of change (Bem, 1972;Festinger, 1957;Festinger and Carlsmith, 1959;Ito et al., 2006;Mori and Mori, 2013).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bem, D. J.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bem, Daryl J.
- Venue
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 1-62
- ISSN
- 0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1748197048
- Cited by
- 5,241
- References
- 93
- Citations by year
- 2026: 182 · 2025: 158 · 2024: 176 · 2023: 191 · 2022: 149 · 2021: 206 · 2020: 237 · 2019: 203 · 2018: 202 · 2017: 159 · 2016: 181 · 2015: 157 · 2014: 186 · 2013: 196 · 2012: 164
- FWCI
- 600.16
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Keywords
- self-perception theory, self-attribution, cognitive dissonance, interpersonal perception, functional analysis
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