To Practice What We Preach: The Use of Hypocrisy and Cognitive Dissonance to Motivate Behavior Change

By Jeff Stone, Nicholas C. Fernandez. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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From inconsistency to hypocrisy: When does “saying one thing but doing another” invite condemnation? (2018, background): “Contrary to some scholarly perspectives (e.g., Simons, 2002; Stone & Fernandez, 2008), we have argued that word-deed misalignment and a lack of behavioral integrity do not by themselves constitute hypocrisy (see Fig.”
Blissfully ignorant: the effects of general privacy concerns, general institutional trust, and affect in the privacy calculus (2015, background): “Techniques of cognitive dissonance reduction, for example, are known to bridge attitude-intention gaps in many other fields of behavior (Stone & Fernandez, 2008).”
Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence (2017, background): “However, it is often observed that people disagree with their own behavior on these sorts of matters (Stone and Fernandez 2008).”
Moral hypocrisy, moral inconsistency, and the struggle for moral integrity. (2012, background): “Distinguishing Moral Hypocrisy and Moral Inconsistency Hypocrisy is often defined in social psychology as not “practicing what you preach” (e.g., Stone & Fernandez, 2008), “saying one thing and doing another” (e.g., Barden, Rucker, & Petty, 2005), or publicly upholding moral norms, especially for…”
Hypocrisy, dissonance and the self-regulation processes that improve health (2011, background): “Over two decades of research shows that an act of hypocrisy motivates people to adopt healthier attitudes and behavior (Stone & Fernandez, 2008 ).”