The Impact of Asking Intention or Self-Prediction Questions on Subsequent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis.

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 e

SUBMITTER: Wood C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4931712 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature