Research article summary (published 30 Oct 2005):

"Saying one thing and doing another": examining the impact of event order on hypocrisy judgments of others.

Full Abstract

This study investigated whether the temporal order of people's expressed statements and their behaviors affected others' judgments of hypocrisy, and why. It was proposed that hypocrisy would be greater when a statement establishing a personal standard preceded a behavior violating that standard as opposed to the reverse order. This order effect occurred in three studies, generalizing across two topic areas (healthy living and safe sex) and for both normative and non-normative statements (pro/anti-safe sex). Mediation analyses indicated that the reverse order mitigated against hypocrisy because the target's inconsistency was attributed to dispositional change. The discussion addresses additional variables likely to affect hypocrisy and the relationship of this research to hypocrisy paradigms in dissonance.

Author information

Author/s: Barden, Jamie (J); Rucker, Derek D (DD); Petty, Richard E (RE);

Affiliation: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1222, USA. barden.5(-atsign-)osu.edu

Grants: T32 MH19728 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Journal: Personality and social psychology bulletin (Pers Soc Psychol Bull), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2005-Nov; vol 31 (issue 11) : pp 1463-74

Dates: Created 2005/10/06; Completed 2006/02/23; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 16207766, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Analysis of Variance Attitude Cognitive Dissonance Communication Humans

Humans Ohio Psychological Theory Social Behavior Social Perception

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