Effects of past Transgressions in an Induced Hypocrisy Paradigm

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ID13664728
AutoresValérie Fointiat (0000-0003-1332-6248, Aix-Marseille Université, autor de correspondencia), Vincent Morisot (Aix-Marseille Université), Muriel Pakuszewski (Aix-Marseille Université)
Año2008
Volumen103
Número2
Páginas625-633
Fecha de publicación2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.103.2.625-633
PMID19102490
OpenAlexW2103748723
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas24

Hypocrisy can be considered as a dissonance state expressed as a combination of two factors: commitment (advocating a pronormative position) and mindfulness (being aware of past transgressions). Such inconsistency between what people advocate and their past behaviors is usually reduced by modifying behaviors or behavioral intentions in line with normative advocacy. The aim of this study is to examine the conditions under which this set of behaviors (apparent hypocrisy) can occur. Specifically, the salience of the transgressions was manipulated: participants were led to recall 1 or 4 transgressions varying in severity (serious vs harmless). As expected, recalling 4 transgressions led to greater behavioral change than recalling only 1 transgression. Surprisingly, recalling 4 harmless transgressions induced greater behavioral change than recalling 4 serious transgressions

Cognitive dissonance · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Hypocrisy · Mindfulness · Normative · Psychotherapist · Recall · Salience (neuroscience · Set (abstract data type · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology