Rokeach, 1976: Confronting values of sense of accomplishment and mature love increased supervisors' rating of effective teaching among teachers over 12 to 13 weeks later
Reference:
Greenstein, T. (1976). Behavior change through value self-confrontation: A field experiment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(2), 254.
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Student-teachers were asked to rank their values. They then reviewed rankings from peers, which indicated that most student-teachers ranked “a sense of accomplishment” more highly than “mature love.” They were then told that good teachers tended to rank “mature love” more highly than “a sense of accomplishment” and discussed the interpretation of this finding. As compared to students in a control condition, who reflected on how education professors might rank values, those in the treatment condition showed a greater endorsement of “mature love” and were rated by supervisors on a standard scale as more effective teachers 12-13 weeks later.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
To See the Self as AdequateApproach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Link Self-Integrity to a Behavior or Attitude to Motivate Positive ChangeHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Am I not living up to my attitudes or values?Am I not living up to my attitudes or values?Psychological Question Addressed
Am I not living up to my attitudes or values?Psychological Process 2:
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Social Area:
Work
Intervention Technique:
Increasing commitment through action, hypocrisy; Prompting with information