La relation attitude-comportement: un état des lieux

The psychosocial definition of attitude is a mental state predisposing one to act in a certain manner when the situation implies the real or symbolic presence of the object of attitude, hence the recurring effort to evaluate this bond which exists between verbal answers and acts. The author presents three generations of work which approach the question of the consistency between attitude and behavior from different perspectives: those which conclude with a very weak relation, those which conclude with a moderated relation, those which highlight conditions necessary to the predictivity of the attitudes.