A Study of the Association among Verbal Attitudes, Commitment and Overt Behavior in Different Experimental Situations

Abstract

This study examined the paired associations among verbal attitudes, commitment and overt behavior. Overt behavior was measured by the degree to which students voluntarily became socially involved in a campus chapter of a civil rights organization. Verbal attitudes were found to be either consistent or inconsistent with overt behavior depending upon how the investigator structured the experimental situation in which verbal attitudes were measured.