Moreno Lorena, Briñol Pablo, Petty Richard E
Department of Behavioral Sciences, IE University, Segovia, Spain.
Department of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2025 Jul;64(3):e12902. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12902.
The circumstances under which people are more likely to use their attitude certainty were examined. Across three studies, participants shared their attitudes on current topics (e.g. refugees). Then, attitude certainty was either measured or manipulated, depending on the study. Elaboration was assessed via need for cognition or manipulated after forming attitudes and certainty, just before the behavioural decision. Attitudes, certainty, and elaboration served as predictors of different behavioural outcomes (e.g. enrolling in a mentoring programme). As predicted, attitudes guided behaviour. Furthermore, the greater the certainty, the greater attitude-behaviour correspondence (A-B consistency), replicating the traditional effect. Most relevant, the effect of already existing attitude certainty in moderating A-B consistency was more likely to occur for high (vs. low) elaboration participants. Following Self-Validation Theory (Briñol & Petty, Psychol. Rev., 129, 2022, 340), this research showed that elaboration can moderate reliance on metacognition determining A-B consistency.
研究考察了人们更有可能使用其态度确定性的情境。在三项研究中，参与者分享了他们对当前话题（如难民）的态度。然后，根据不同的研究，对态度确定性进行测量或操控。通过认知需求来评估详尽程度，或者在形成态度和确定性之后、在做出行为决定之前对其进行操控。态度、确定性和详尽程度作为不同行为结果（如参加指导计划）的预测指标。正如预期的那样，态度引导行为。此外，确定性越高，态度与行为的一致性（A - B一致性）就越高，这重复了传统效应。最相关的是，对于高（与低）详尽程度的参与者，已有态度确定性在调节A - B一致性方面的作用更有可能出现。根据自我验证理论（布里尼奥尔和佩蒂，《心理学评论》，第129卷，2022年，第340页），这项研究表明，详尽程度可以调节对决定A - B一致性的元认知的依赖。
