What is the relationship between what we are on the inside and what we do on the outside? philosophers, theologians and educators have long speculated about the connections between attitude and action, character and conflict. Private word in public deeds. Underlying must mass teaching, concealing and child rearing is an assumption. Our private beliefs and feelings determine our public behavior. So if we wish to change behavior, we must first change hearts and minds.
At the beginning, social psychologists are great to know people's attitudes is to predict their actions. As demonstrated by generous serial killers and by suicide bombers, extreme attitudes can produce extreme behavior. But in 1964, Leon Festinger concluded that the evidence showed that changing people's attitudes hardly affects their behavior. festing, our belief system artitude behavior relation works the other way around. is Robert Abelson footed. We are very well trained in a very good at finding reasons for what we do, but not very good at doing work we find reasons for what social psychologists talk about someone's attitude they refuse to beliefs and feelings related to a person or an event and the resulting behavior tendency, they come together favorable or unfavorable evaluative reactions for something often rooted in beliefs and exhibited in feelings and inclinations to act define a person's attitudes.
This a person may have a negative attitude for coffee and natural attitude over different in a positive attitude toward the next door neighbor. Attitudes provide an efficient way to size up the world. When we have to quickly respond to something that we will feel about it can guide how we react. For example, a person And who believes a particle acting group is lazy and aggressive, may feel these five preset people and therefore intend to act in a discriminatory manner. The study of attitudes is close to the heart of social psychology and was one of its first concerns. For much of the last century.
Researchers wonder how much our attitudes affect our actions. You can remember these three, three dimensions as the as the ABCs of attitudes, ethics, which is feelings, behavior, tendency, and cognition which is thought