Attitude-behavior gaps may stem from developmental shifts toward cognitive control

Evidence

Researchers also need to assess the circumstances under which evaluations influence behavior and vice versa. Under many circumstances behavior directed toward outgroup members is unrelated to evaluations. Some would say that this is due to poor measurement. But it is theoretically more interesting to hypothesize that with age, behavior comes under more cognitive control, whereas with younger children it is under emotional control. Perhaps differences in implicit and explicit attitudes arise in children when cognitions become strong and salient enough to diverge from emotions. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2031

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the implicit-explicit attitude divergence literature the reader likely already holds in the vault from Allport-adjacent prejudice claims. — connects to: Exit trajectories hinge on a person’s developmental core need — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 855