The Intention–Behavior Gap.¶
Sheeran, P., & Webb, T. L. (2016). The Intention–Behavior Gap. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10(9), 503-518.
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- Knowledge-Action Gap
- Health psychology: the intention-behaviour gap — the documented difference between stated intentions to exercise, eat well, quit smoking, or attend appointments and observed behaviour, where intention formation has a moderate effect and behaviour change a much smaller one.
This sourceReviews the documented gap between intentions and behavior in health psychology, establishing that intention is a strong but imperfect predictor of action.
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Sheeran and Webb cite a meta-analysis where medium-to-large intention change produced only small-to-medium behaviour change, with exercise, diet, smoking and appointment examples.
“A meta-analysis of experiments that manipulated intention showed that a medium-to-large-sized change in intentions led to only a small-to-medium-sized change in behavior (d+ = .36; Webb & Sheeran, 2006”
- Health psychology: the intention-behaviour gap — the documented difference between stated intentions to exercise, eat well, quit smoking, or attend appointments and observed behaviour, where intention formation has a moderate effect and behaviour change a much smaller one.
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