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How well do our attitudes predict our behavior?
            When attitudes predict behavior
            The inside story: Mahazarin R. Banaji on discovering experimental social psychology
            Research close-up: You've got mail: Prejudicial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior

When does our behavior affect our attitudes?
            Role playing
            When saying becomes believing
            Focus on: Saying becomes believing
            The foot-in-the-door phenomenon
            Evil and moral acts
            Interracial behavior and racial attitudes
            Social movements

Why does our behavior affect our attitudes?
            Self-presentation: impression management
            Self-justification: Cognitive dissonance reduction
            Self-perception
            Comparing the theories

Postscript: Changing ourselves through action







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