Simply asking questions about health behaviors increases both healthy and unhealthy behaviors

By Patti Y. Williams, Lauren G. Block, Gavan J. Fitzsimons. 2006

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Gavan J. Fitzsimons
2. Lauren G. Block
3. Patti Y. Williams
4. David E. Sprott
5. Vicki G. Morwitz
6. Eric R. Spangenberg
7. Linda D. Hollebeek
8. C. Abraham

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Vicki G. Morwitz
2. Gavan J. Fitzsimons
3. Andrew Halpern-Manners
4. John Robert Warren
5. Lauren G. Block
6. Patti Y. Williams
7. David E. Sprott
8. Eric R. Spangenberg

Citations in the corpus

• Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal Social Science Surveys (2012, background): “…respondents’ actual subsequent behaviors, cognitive psychologists note that one way for respondents to mitigate cognitive dissonance is to modify their subsequent behaviors (e.g., Fitzsimons and Moore 2008; Levav and Fitzsimons 2006; Spangenberg et al. 2008; Toh et al. 2006; Williams et al. 2006).”
• The question–behavior effect: What we know and where we go from here (2006, background): “As noted in the Williams et al. (2006) paper in the current issue of this journal, research could investigate negative behaviors (e.g., illicit drug consumption, unsafe sex) that have countervailing attitudinal and normative beliefs.”