Anticipated Affect and Behavioral Choice
Authors:
- Rene RichardRRRene Richard
- Joop van der PligtJPJoop van der Pligt
- Nanne de VriesNVNanne de Vries
- 7 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Basic and Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 18 (2) , 111-129
Abstract
Most research on the impact of affect on attitudes and behavior emphasizes the effect of past and present affective reactions. In this article we focus on anticipated, postbehavioral, affective reactions. The influence of anticipated affective reactions on a number of behaviors was investigated in the context of Ajzen's theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985, 1991). Results showed that anticipated affective reactions predicted behavioral intentions independent from general attitudes (evaluations) toward the behavior. As expected, anticipated affective reactions were more negative than attitudes toward the behavior for behaviors with negatively valued consequences and more positive for behaviors with positively valued consequences. Moreover, for three of the four investigated behaviors, anticipated affective reactions explained a significant proportion of variance in behavioral expectations, over and above the components of the theory of planned behavior. On average, behavioral expectations explained more...Keywords
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