Wood, C, Conner, M orcid.org/0000-0002-6229-8143, Miles, E et al. (4 more authors) (2016) The Impact of Asking Intention or Self-Prediction Questions on Subsequent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20 (3). pp. 245-268. ISSN 1088-8683
Abstract
The current meta-analysis estimated the magnitude of the impact of asking intention and self-prediction questions on rates of subsequent behavior, and examined mediators and moderators of this question–behavior effect (QBE). Random-effects meta-analysis on 116 published tests of the effect indicated that intention/prediction questions have a small positive effect on behavior (d+ = 0.24). Little support was observed for attitude accessibility, cognitive dissonance, behavioral simulation, or processing fluency explanations of the QBE. Multivariate analyses indicated significant effects of social desirability of behavior/behavior domain (larger effects for more desirable and less risky behaviors), difficulty of behavior (larger effects for easy-to-perform behaviors), and sample type (larger effects among student samples). Although this review controls for co-occurrence of moderators in multivariate analyses, future primary research should systematically vary moderators in fully factorial designs. Further primary research is also needed to unravel the mechanisms underlying different variants of the QBE.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0. |
Keywords: | question–behavior effect; mere-measurement effect; self-prophecy effect; meta-analysis; behavior change |
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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 Sep 2015 10:00 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 21:53 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088868315592334 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1088868315592334 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90306 |