Aggregation principle

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The principle of aggregation in social psychology relates to the correspondence between attitudes and behavior. It is a principle that global masses of behavior, which combine a variety of situations and times, can be better predicted with the help of global measures of attitudes than individual behaviors.

One study asked people about their religiosity. This global measure very well predicted global behavior over a long period of time, namely the total number of all religious acts over a long period of time. However, the global measure of religiosity poorly predicted specific religious behaviors, such as For example, whether they would go to church the following Sunday or whether they would pray before dinner.

See also: attitude (psychology)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Russell H. Weigel, Lee S. Newman: Increasing attitude-behavior correspondence by broadening the scope of the behavioral measure. In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . tape 33 , no. 6 , June 1, 1976, ISSN  1939-1315 , pp. 793-802 , doi : 10.1037 / 0022-3514.33.6.793 ( apa.org [accessed May 14, 2017]).