Do attitudes cause behavior or vice versa? An alternative conceptualization of the attitude-behavior relationship in travel behavior modeling

Kroesen, Maarten; Handy, Susan; Chorus, Caspar

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.013

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“…Although results from the performed multinomial logistic regressions suggest bidirectional effects between increased use of a certain mode and improved attitudes towards that mode, no robust conclusions on the causal nature of processes can be drawn without true longitudinal data. On the other hand, it is also possible that changes in travel behaviour and attitudes happen simultaneously (Dobson et al, 1978;Golob, 2001;Kroesen et al, 2017;Tardiff, 1977), resulting in a possible self-reinforcing effect. Furthermore, it might also be valuable to look at the intermediate role of car possession.…”

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Changing travel behaviour and attitudes following a residential relocation

Vos

Ettema

Witlox

2018

Journal of Transport Geography

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A considerable amount of studies have indicated that people to some extent select themselves in specific neighbourhoods allowing them to travel in their desired way. Although a lot of studies analysed the degree to which travel preferences affect the residential location choice, few studies looked at the effect of a residential relocation on people's travel behaviour and attitudes. A new residential context has the potential to disrupt previous travel choices and could potentially change people's attitudes. This study -using 1,539 recently relocated residents in the city of Ghent (Belgium) − analyses self-reported changes in mode frequency and travel attitudes after a relocation, and uses a cohort approach to look at mode frequency and attitudes at different times after the relocation took place. Results suggest that (i) travel attitudes often influence the residential location choice, and (ii) both travel attitudes and travel mode choice change after a relocation, albeit in different ways depending on the current (urban versus suburban) and previous residential neighbourhood (more/equally/less urbanised). This study also suggests that a (possible) dissonance between travel attitudes and the residential neighbourhood is partly a temporal situation, as attitudes can gradually change in accordance with the new residential environment.

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Changing travel behaviour and attitudes following a residential relocation

Vos

Ettema

Witlox

2018

Journal of Transport Geography

119

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“…They were motivated by the insight that attitude is a predictor of a person's behavior and actions. Therefore, attitude-behavior consistency was defined by [9] as the degree to which an individual's attitude can predict his/her behavior [9].…”

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“…Attitude as a term can be generally defined as a cognitive evaluation of a person, object, event, or behavior [23]. It also represents an individual's thoughts and opinions that determine their choices and actions [9,24]. In this paper, our focus is on capturing both the implicit and explicit attitudes of a user towards certain topics to determine the association between the user behavior and the user's actual attitude.…”

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“…Therefore, it is essential to provide a personalized privacy protection technique that adapts to users' perceptions of unwanted content. Various studies proposed predicting what users dislike based on explicit feedback gathered from users [6,7] or implicit feedback derived from user content consumption patterns [8,9]. However, the consistency between a user attitude and a user behavior needs further investigation to constitute a ground truth of the validity of using users' behaviors as indicators of their attitudes.…”

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Employing Behavioral Analysis to Predict User Attitude towards Unwanted Content in Online Social Network Services: The Case of Makkah Region in Saudi Arabia

Alsulami

Al-Aama

2020

Computers

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The high volume of user-generated content caused by the popular use of online social network services exposes users to different kinds of content that can be harmful or unwanted. Solutions to protect user privacy from such unwanted content cannot be generalized due to different perceptions of what is considered as unwanted for each individual. Thus, there is a substantial need to design a personalized privacy protection mechanism that takes into consideration differences in users’ privacy requirements. To achieve personalization, a user attitude about certain content must be acknowledged by the automated protection system. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between user attitude and user behavior among users from the Makkah region in Saudi Arabia to determine the applicability of considering users’ behaviors, as indicators of their attitudes towards unwanted content. We propose a semi-explicit attitude measure to infer user attitude from user-selected examples. Results revealed that semi-explicit attitude is a more reliable attitude measure to represent users’ actual attitudes than self-reported preferences for our sample. In addition, results show a statistically significant relationship between a user’s commenting behavior and the user’s semi-explicit attitude within our sample. Thus, commenting behavior is an effective indicator of the user’s semi-explicit attitude towards unwanted content for a user from the Makkah region in Saudi Arabia. We believe that our findings can have positive implications for designing an effective automated personalized privacy protection mechanism by reproducing the study considering other populations.

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“…However, limiting people's perceptions to a few quantifiable variables inevitably produces an overly simplistic picture. In addition, the causal relationship between perceptions and cycling remains unclear: perceptions may influence cycling practices, but it appears that cycling also influences perceptions (Kroesen, Handy, and Chorus 2017). Some authors point out that intangible aspects of the environment also play a role in cycling practices.…”

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Towards a pattern language for cycling environments: merging variables and narratives

Brömmelstroet

Nello-Deakin

Quillien³

et al. 2018

Applied Mobilities

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To understand relationships between the urban environment and cycling practices we need new ways to face complexity and multidimensionality. Neither measurable environmental variables, nor thickly descriptive, particularistic, or overtly theoretical contributions provide satisfying recommendations for cycling policy and practice. We propose the development of a pattern language for urban cycling environments, together with a supporting methodologynamed Embodied Makingfor the development of novel patterns. We define an individual pattern as "a honed solution that successfully resolves conflicting forces in a recurring context"; a pattern language as a grouping of related patterns that work together within a given domain. Rather than attempting to identify existing solutions, Embodied Making seeks to develop new patterns from the bottom-up, i.e. from the analysis of forces themselves. The use of a pattern language naturally addresses the integrated quality of the physical, perceived, and lived dimensions of urban environments, and holds promise for a more holistic understanding of cycling environments, which could help bridge existing ontological and epistemological divisions within cycling research. We discuss how such a pattern language (1) Addresses integrated quality of physical, perceived, and lived environments;(2) Makes human experience part and parcel of the investigation;(3) Offers an approach to accommodating complexity; (4) Is adaptable, because it formulates patterns as mid-level abstractions instead of either absolutes or unique context-specifics; (5) Uses pragmatism as its philosophical underpinning; (6) Works with languages in which patterns take on significance and meaning according to connections with other patterns, and; (7) Facilitates community building. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Do attitudes cause behavior or vice versa? An alternative conceptualization of the attitude-behavior relationship in travel behavior modeling

Cited by 175 publications

References 36 publications

Changing travel behaviour and attitudes following a residential relocation

Changing travel behaviour and attitudes following a residential relocation

Employing Behavioral Analysis to Predict User Attitude towards Unwanted Content in Online Social Network Services: The Case of Makkah Region in Saudi Arabia

Towards a pattern language for cycling environments: merging variables and narratives

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