"Saying one thing and doing another": examining the impact of event order on hypocrisy judgments of others |
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Authors: | Barden Jamie Rucker Derek D Petty Richard E |
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Institution: | The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1222, USA. barden.5@osu.edu |
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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. |
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