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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 3, 441-446 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/014616728063018

The Experimenter's Foot-in-the-Door

Self-Perception, Body Weight, and Volunteering

J. John Wagener

Clark University

James D. Laird

Clark University

Subjects induced to perform a small favor, filling out a questionnaire, were more likely than subjects who did not fill out the questionnaire to perform a subsequent larger favor, volunteering for an experiment. However, as predicted by a self-perception analysis of the probable process, this result was observed only in normal weight subjects and not in overweights.


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