The Effect of Forced Compliance on Attitude Change and Behavior Change

1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Cook ◽  
Michael S. Pallak ◽  
Michael D. Storms ◽  
Kevin D. McCaul
2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (16) ◽  
pp. 7778-7783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward H. Chang ◽  
Katherine L. Milkman ◽  
Dena M. Gromet ◽  
Robert W. Rebele ◽  
Cade Massey ◽  
...  

We present results from a large (n = 3,016) field experiment at a global organization testing whether a brief science-based online diversity training can change attitudes and behaviors toward women in the workplace. Our preregistered field experiment included an active placebo control and measured participants’ attitudes and real workplace decisions up to 20 weeks postintervention. Among groups whose average untreated attitudes—whereas still supportive of women—were relatively less supportive of women than other groups, our diversity training successfully produced attitude change but not behavior change. On the other hand, our diversity training successfully generated some behavior change among groups whose average untreated attitudes were already strongly supportive of women before training. This paper extends our knowledge about the pathways to attitude and behavior change in the context of bias reduction. However, the results suggest that the one-off diversity trainings that are commonplace in organizations are unlikely to be stand-alone solutions for promoting equality in the workplace, particularly given their limited efficacy among those groups whose behaviors policymakers are most eager to influence.


2015 ◽  
Vol Volume 4, Number 1, Special... (Special Issue...) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valérie Fointiat ◽  
Laura Barbier

International audience The study of the socio-psychological processes involved in persuasion is onethe pivotal topics in social psychology. Eight decades ago, researchers from Yaleuniversity were the first in studying the mechanism of persuasion in the specificcontext of World War ll. Persuasion is obtained when the receptor of communicationmakes a change in his mind that is when a change in attitude occurs. Logically, such achange in attitude should imply a change in behavior. The research on behavioralchange show that it is not systematically the case. Thus changing what people think isnot changing what people do (or what people will do). This shortcut could biased theconclusions of researches, in the large domain of persuasion as well as in the morerestricted domain of the persuasive technologies. In conclusion, we would like topromote a theoretical, methodological articulation between HMI and social psychology. La compréhension des déterminants et des processus socio-cognitifsimpliqués dans les phénomènes de persuasion s'inscrit dans une tradition derecherche remontant aux années 1940, connu sous le nom d'École de Yale. Lestentatives de persuasion aboutissent, lorsque le récepteur du message persuasifmodifie son attitude dans le sens défendu dans le message. En toute rationalité, onpourrait attendre que la modification d'une attitude entraîne une modification ducomportement. Ce raccourci, souvent pris notamment par les tenants de la persuasiontechnologique, s'accompagne aussi de la polysémie des termes attitude etcomportements. Après un rappel de définition conceptuelle du point de vue de lapsychologie sociale, nous présenterons un rappel bref -et par conséquent partial etincomplet- des théories et modèles majeurs auxquels ont recours les chercheurstravaillant dans le domaine de la persuasion (i.e. changement d'attitude) et del'influence sociale (changement de comportement). Nous défendons l'idée que dans ledomaine d'étude de la persuasion technologique, le rapprochement théorique etméthodologique de l'ergonomie cognitive, des IHM et de la psychologie socialeconstitue un tiercé gagnant.


2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas Verplanken ◽  
Sheina Orbell

Efforts to guide peoples’ behavior toward environmental sustainability, good health, or new products have emphasized informational and attitude change strategies. There is evidence that changing attitudes leads to changes in behavior, yet this approach takes insufficient account of the nature and operation of habits, which form boundary conditions for attitude-directed interventions. Integration of research on attitudes and habits might enable investigators to identify when and how behavior change strategies will be most effective. How might attitudinally driven behavior change be consolidated into lasting habits? How do habits protect the individual against the vicissitudes of attitudes and temptations and promote goal achievement? How might attitudinal approaches aiming to change habits be improved by capitalizing on habit discontinuities and strategic planning? When and how might changing or creating habit architecture shape habits directly? A systematic approach to these questions might help move behavior change efforts from attitude change strategies to habit change strategies. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 73 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.


1974 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-334
Author(s):  
ROBERT C. CARSON
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2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie D. Hingle ◽  
Aimee Snyder ◽  
Naja McKenzie ◽  
Cynthia Thomson ◽  
Robert A. Logan ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evans K. Lodge ◽  
Annakate M. Schatz ◽  
John M. Drake

Abstract Background During outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infections, the lack of effective drugs and vaccines increases reliance on non-pharmacologic public health interventions and behavior change to limit human-to-human transmission. Interventions that increase the speed with which infected individuals remove themselves from the susceptible population are paramount, particularly isolation and hospitalization. Ebola virus disease (EVD), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are zoonotic viruses that have caused significant recent outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission. Methods This investigation quantified changing mean removal rates (MRR) and days from symptom onset to hospitalization (DSOH) of infected individuals from the population in seven different outbreaks of EVD, SARS, and MERS, to test for statistically significant differences in these metrics between outbreaks. Results We found that epidemic week and viral serial interval were correlated with the speed with which populations developed and maintained health behaviors in each outbreak. Conclusions These findings highlight intrinsic population-level changes in isolation rates in multiple epidemics of three zoonotic infections with established human-to-human transmission and significant morbidity and mortality. These data are particularly useful for disease modelers seeking to forecast the spread of emerging pathogens.


Author(s):  
Silvia Torsi ◽  
Cristina Rebek ◽  
Benedetta Giunchiglia ◽  
Fausto Giunchgilia
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