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: 3odel will be summarized. In so doing, I will be considering the influence itude (affee) 9 subsequent behavior through mediating cognitive processes" 3g he individual's perceptions of and cognitions about the attitude object:, mediate situation in which the attitude object is encountered. Before „he proposed model, a brief historical overview of the literature on „rude-behavior consistency may be useful.* se Historical Overview of the Attitude-Behavior Consistency Issue z., and Fazio (1982) have characterized approaches to the study of attitude-„wior consistency as having progressed through some clear generations of ght and research. Until the mid-1960s, there appears to have been a dominant assumption in the field of a one-to-one correspondence between kk and behavior. Early definitions of the attitude concept (eg, Alport,