The cognitive impact of past behavior: Influences on beliefs, attitudes and future behavioral decisions
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To study the processes by which past behavior influences future behavior, participants were led to believe that without being aware of it, they had expressed either support for or opposition to the institution of comprehensive exams. Judgment and response time data suggested that participants' perceptions of their past behavior often influenced their decisions to repeat the behavior. This influence was partly the result of cognitive activity that influenced participants' cognitions about specific behavioral consequences and the attitude they based on these cognitions. More generally, however, feedback about past behavior had a direct effect on participants' attitudes and ultimate behavioral decisions that was independent of the outcome-specific cognitions. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for biased scanning of memory, dissonance reduction, self-perception, and the use of behavior as a heuristic.
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- Authors
- Albarracín, D., & Wyer, R. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- ORCID
- Albarracín, Dolores
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2000
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-22
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- PMC
- PMC4807731
- OpenAlex
- W4229560905
- Cited by
- 420
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh052616-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH01861, R03MH058073, K01MH001861, R03-MH58073, R01-MH52616)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- past behavior, cognitive impact, belief, attitudes, future behavior, self-perception, self-concept
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude, Choice Behavior, Cognitive Dissonance, Female, Humans, Knowledge of Results, Psychological, Male, Models, Psychological, Self Concept
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