The Intention–Behavior Gap

By P. Sheeran, Thomas Llewelyn Webb. 2016

1,782 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/19675f19058b8fe0f0bdc7d17037de0e5e84da42

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In Applied Psychology

1. Benjamin Gardner
2. Phillippa Lally
3. Amanda L. Rebar
4. C. Wrosch
5. C. Marwick
6. Stéphanie Brun de Pontet
7. Manuel Alector Ribeiro
8. Paul Grossman

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Phillippa Lally
2. Manuel Alector Ribeiro
3. Paul Grossman
4. Benjamin Gardner
5. Sonja M. Geiger
6. Nathaniel Barr
7. Marc Arul Weissmann
8. Kelly Peters

In Social Psychology

1. Manuel Alector Ribeiro
2. Daniel Fischer
3. Sonja M. Geiger
4. Ulf Schrader
5. C. Wrosch
6. C. Marwick
7. Stéphanie Brun de Pontet
8. Phillippa Lally

Citations in the corpus

• Individuals’ intentions to engage in last chance tourism: applying the value-belief-norm model (2020, background): “…some work has demonstrated some significant relationships between behavioral intentions and actual behavior (Oreg & Katz-Gerro, 2006; Nigbur et al., 2010; Whitley et al., 2018), others have suggested that explaining behaviors from behavioral intent is not always possible (Sheeran & Webb, 2016).”
• Toward a theory of behavioral control (2021, background): “This is evident through the intensive focus on perceived rather than actual behavioral control in empirical research in the existing literature (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Boobalan & Nachimuthu, 2020; Emekci, 2019; Sheeran, 2002; Sheeran & Webb, 2016).”
• Family Business Succession: What’s Motivation Got to Do With It? (2019, background): “Examining objective outcomes is important because although intentions are believed to predict such outcomes, there is much variability in these associations (Sheeran & Webb, 2016).”
• Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “…those from Pennycook et al. (under review) are not necessarily at odds with each other, especially given the large corpus of work showing that intentions are often poor predictors of actual behavior (Ajzen & Fishbein, 2005; Fazio & Zanna, 1981; Fishbein, 1966; Sheeran, 2002; Sheeran & Webb, 2016).”
• Does habit weaken the relationship between intention and behaviour? Revisiting the habit‐intention interaction hypothesis (2020, background): “Factors that facilitate intention enactment are outside the scope of this review (see for example, Sheeran & Webb, 2016).”
• Meditating for the Planet: Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Sustainable Consumption Behaviors (2020, background): “The first potential effect of mindfulness is the reduction of the attitude– behavior gap (Ajzen, 1991) or the intention–behavior gap (Sheeran & Webb, 2016).”