Application of Vested Interest Theory to prevention of non-medical prescription stimulant and marijuana use: Unforeseen benefits of attitude-behavior inconsistency

Attitude, an “evaluative integration of cognitions and affects experienced in relation to an object” (Crano and Prislin, 2006), was viewed by Allport (1954) as the “primary building stone in the edifice of social psychology.” Attitudes have played a central role in explaining and predicting a range of hu man actions (Bohner and Dickel, 2011; Crano and Prislin, 2006), but they are not infallible predictors of behavior (Crano, 1995; McGuire, 1985; Siegel et al., 2014). The current research acknowledges, and seeks to take advantage of this lack of perfect association between attitudes and behaviors.
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