Citation

Trafimow D, Fishbein M. J. Appl. Soc. Psychol. 1994; 24(1): 1-11.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb00549.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Stasson and Fishbein (1990) reported findings indicating that college students' intentions to wear seat belts in low-risk situations were attitudinally controlled, while their intentions to wear seat belts in high-risk situations were normatively controlled. If these findings are valid, manipulations of attitude (toward wearing a seat belt) should have a greater impact on intentions to wear a seat belt in a safe situation than on intentions to wear a seat belt in a risky situation. Three experiments provided strong support for this hypothesis. The implications of these findings for defining behavior and for designing interventions to increase seat-belt use are discussed.