{"id":762,"date":"2008-03-26T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2008-03-26T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T18:14:11","slug":"the-attitude-behaviour-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"The Attitude-Behaviour Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of my thinking about sustainability kept coming back to the fact that good intentions often don&#8217;t become action. This is a special case of a general psychological problem, the gap between attitudes and behaviour. It&#8217;s been tackled a bunch of times over the years, but never comprehensively or convincingly explained. (And it won&#8217;t be by me either, my Masters research is looking at how being in a group can help to bridge the gap, not figuring out what causes it.)<br \/>\nAnyway, PsyBlog published this a few days ago: <a href=http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2008\/03\/attitude-behaviour-gap-why-we-say-one.php>a nice little article on what the attitude-behaviour gap is, and a description of Lapiere&#8217;s famous Chinese couple study from the 30s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You see it all the time. People say they&#8217;re worried about global warming and yet they drive around in a big gas guzzler. They say that money isn&#8217;t their God, yet they work all the hours. They say they want to be fit but they don&#8217;t do any exercise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are curious about the whole human behaviour thing, do take a look.<br \/>\nAlso of interest: <a href=http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2007\/11\/10-piercing-insights-into-human-nature.php>Why we do dumb or irrational things: 10 brilliant social psychology studies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of my thinking about sustainability kept coming back to the fact that good intentions often don&#8217;t become action. This is a special case of a general psychological problem, the gap between attitudes and behaviour. It&#8217;s been tackled a bunch of times over the years, but never comprehensively or convincingly explained. (And it won&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Attitude-Behaviour Gap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-ci","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}