Abstract
One way to change attitudes is to induce people to act as though they already have the desired attitude. Another way is to induce people to imagine taking attitude-relevant actions. People who imagine taking an action sometimes forget whether they did it or only imagined it–a source monitoring error (SME). Previous research demonstrated a positive relationship between the number of attitude-relevant SMEs and attitude change (AC). The present experiments tested whether the imagined time frame might moderate this SME-AC relationship. The results indicated that the SME-AC relationship is equivalent for actions imagined in the past and future (Experiment 1), but occurs only for imagined attitude-relevant actions that occur in a near rather than distant imagined time frame (Experiment 2).
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