...Issues, 25 (1969), 65, surveys the literature on coincidence of attitudes and actions. Wicker concludes: "It is considerably more likely that attitudes will...responses are rarely above .30, and often are near zero." It seems doubtful that these findings are applicable to freely expressed attitudes (as contrasted to...

...examined forty-six empirical studies of attitudinal-behavioral consistency only to conclude that it is more likely that attitudes will be unrelated or only slightly related to overt behavior than that attitudes will be closely related to actions. Foxall argues that more recent encouraging...

...a big disappointment for scholars advocating causal relationships between attitudes and behaviour: Taken as a whole these studies suggest that it is...will be unrelated or only slightly related to overt behaviours than that attitudes will be closely related to action' 1Wicker 1969: 76). Foxall's review...

...Verhalten in einer großen Anzahl von Studien dazu, kommt zu einem doch recht niederschmetternden Ergebnis: „Taken as a whole, these studies suggest that it...is considerably more likely that attitudes will be wnrelated or only slightly related to overt behaviors than that attitudes will be closely related to...

...studies of attitude-behavior relationships, concludes that, "Taken as a whole, these studies suggest it is considerably more likely that attitudes will...that attitudes will be closely related to actions. . . Only rarely can as much as 10 per cent of the variance in overt behavior be accounted for by attitudinal...

...46 relevant studies which had used a wide range of participants and attitudes. He concluded (p.65) 'it is considerably more likely that attitudes will be unrelated or only slightly related to overt behaviours than that attitudes will be closely related to actions'. Correlations between attitude and...

...behaviour only rarely exceeded +.3, and the mean correlation was +.15. As Wicker (p. 65) concluded, "Taken as a whole, these studies suggest that it is...that attitudes will be unrelated or only slightly jo what extent do our attitudes related to overt behaviours than that attitudes will be strongly related...

...r = .15 with behaviors, and that the correlations rarely exceeded r = .30. Wicker (1969) concluded: "taken as a whole, these studies suggest that it is...more likely that attitudes will be unrelated or only very slightly related to overt behaviors than thai attitudes will be closely related to actions" (p....

...utility of the attitude concept was posed by Wicker's review of the literature in which he summarized: Taken as a whole, these studies suggest that it is...responses are rarely above .30, and often are near zero. (1969: 65) And, like Mischel in the personality domain, Wicker concluded, 'The present review provides...

...in deriving behaviour from written statements presumably reflecting attitudes.8 Thus, he concluded that 'it is considerably more likely that attitudes...will be unrelated or only slightly related to overt behaviour than that attitudes will be closely related to actions' (Wicker, 1969, p. 73). Further research...