Wilding, S orcid.org/0000-0002-7977-7132, Conner, M orcid.org/0000-0002-6229-8143, Sandberg, T et al. (6 more authors) (2016) The question-behaviour effect: A theoretical and methodological review and meta-analysis. European Review of Social Psychology, 27 (1). pp. 196-230. ISSN 1046-3283
Abstract
Research has demonstrated that asking people questions about a behaviour can lead to behaviour change. Despite many, varied studies in different domains, it is only recently that this phenomenon has been studied under the umbrella term of the question-behaviour effect (QBE) and moderators of the effect have been investigated. With a particular focus on our own contributions, this article: (1) provides an overview of QBE research; (2) reviews and offers new evidence concerning three theoretical accounts of the QBE (behavioural simulation and processing fluency; attitude accessibility; cognitive dissonance); (3) reports a new meta-analysis of QBE studies (k = 66, reporting 94 tests) focusing on methodological moderators. The findings of this meta-analysis support a small significant effect of the QBE (g = 0.14, 95% CI = 0.11, 0.18, p < .001) with smaller effect sizes observed in more carefully controlled studies that exhibit less risk of bias and (4) also considers directions for future research on the QBE, especially studies that use designs with low risk of bias and consider desirable and undesirable behaviour separately.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Question-behaviour effect; attitude accessibility; cognitive dissonance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2016 13:09 |
Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2017 16:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2016.1245940 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10463283.2016.1245940 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:108516 |