Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence.

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Psychological bulletin

• Publication date

  2006-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1037/0033-2909.132.2.249PMID 16536643
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Promoting health: intervention strategies from social and behavioral research.

  2020cited by this paper
• Statistical Methods for Meta‐Analysis

  2008cited by this paper
• Goal Setting and Goal Striving

  2007cited by this paper
• Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes

  2006cited by this paper
• The Interplay Between Goal Intentions and Implementation Intentions

  2005cited by this paper
• Integrating concepts from goal theories to understand the achievement of personal goals

  2005cited by this paper
• Automaticity in Goal Pursuit

  2005cited by this paper
• Moderation of cognition-intention and cognition-behaviour relations: a meta-analysis of properties of variables from the theory of planned behaviour.

  2004cited by this paper
• Stages of change or changes of stage? Predicting transitions in transtheoretical model stages in relation to healthy food choice.

  2004cited by this paper
• Social Motivation: Habits and the Structure of Motivation in Everyday Life

  2004cited by this paper
• Interventions to change health behaviours: evidence-based or evidence-inspired?

  2004cited by this paper
• Stages of motivational readiness for physical activity: a comparison of different algorithms of classification.

  2004cited by this paper
• The Persuasiveness of Source Credibility: A Critical Review of Five Decades' Evidence

  2004cited by this paper
• Goal contagion: perceiving is for pursuing.

  2004cited by this paper
• The use and abuse of student participants

  2004cited by this paper
• Evaluation of a theoretically based AIDS/STD peer education program on postponing sexual intercourse and on condom use among adolescents attending high school.

  2004cited by this paper
• The effectiveness of an interactive multimedia program to influence eating habits.

  2004cited by this paper
• Social Motivation: CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS SOCIAL MOTIVATION: GENERAL ISSUES

  2004cited by this paper
• Questions raised by a reasoned action approach: comment on Ogden (2003).

  2004cited by this paper
• Effects of appearance-based interventions on sun protection intentions and self-reported behaviors.

  2003cited by this paper
• An assessment of the validity of adolescent self-reported smoking using three biological indicators.

  2003cited by this paper
• Effects of motivational interviewing on smoking cessation in adolescents with psychiatric disorders

  2003cited by this paper
• Fear Appeals Motivate Acceptance of Action Recommendations: Evidence for a Positive Bias in the Processing of Persuasive Messages

  2003cited by this paper
• The Effects of Source Credibility and Message Framing on Exercise Intentions, Behaviors, and Attitudes: An Integration of the Elaboration Likelihood Model and Prospect Theory1

  2003cited by this paper
• Planning and Self-Efficacy in the Adoption and Maintenance of Breast Self-Examination: A Longitudinal Study on Self-Regulatory Cognitions

  2003cited by this paper
• Mediator of Moderators: Temporal Stability of Intention and the Intention-Behavior Relation

  2003cited by this paper
• Problems of Operationalizing Habits and Integrating Habits in Normative Decision‐Making Models1

  2003cited by this paper
• As Time Goes By: How Goal and Implementation Intentions Influence Enactment of Short‐Fuse Behaviors1

  2003cited by this paper
• Predicting behaviour from perceived behavioural control: tests of the accuracy assumption of the theory of planned behaviour.

  2003cited by this paper
• Social psychological foundations of health and illness

  2003cited by this paper
• Thinking of you: nonconscious pursuit of interpersonal goals associated with relationship partners.

  2003cited by this paper
• Intimate Partner Violence and Safer Sex Negotiation: Effects of a Gender-Specific Intervention

  2003cited by this paper
• Predicting future blood donor returns: past behavior, intentions, and observer effects.

  2002cited by this paper
• Curtailing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Evaluation of Project 4-Health

  2002cited by this paper
• The theory of planned behavior and healthy eating.

  2002cited by this paper
• Self and Motivation: Emerging Psychological Perspectives

  2002cited by this paper
• Risk Perception and Prototype Perception: Independent Processes Predicting Risk Behavior

  2002cited by this paper
• EFFECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION INTENTIONS ON THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE OF NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BEHAVIOURS — RESULTS OF TWO FIELD EXPERIMENTS

  2002cited by this paper
• Residual Effects of Past on Later Behavior: Habituation and Reasoned Action Perspectives

  2002cited by this paper
• A theory of goal systems.

  2002cited by this paper
• Increasing condom use by undermining perceived invulnerability to HIV.

  2002cited by this paper
• The Accuracy of Self‐Reports of Condom Use and Sexual Behavior

  2002cited by this paper
• Combining motivational and volitional interventions to promote exercise participation: protection motivation theory and implementation intentions.

  2002cited by this paper
• Evidence that perceived behavioural control is a multidimensional construct: perceived control and perceived difficulty.

  2002cited by this paper
• Psychological and Somatic Factors in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Towards Building a Psychological Framework

  2002cited by this paper
• Exploring discontinuity patterns in the transtheoretical model: An application of the theory of planned behaviour.

  2002cited by this paper
• Nonconscious motivations: Their activation, operation, and consequences.

  2002cited by this paper
• Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Behaviour Change Interventions: A Systematic Review

  2002cited by this paper
• Examination of the Efficacy of an Appearance-Focused Intervention to Reduce UV Exposure

  2002cited by this paper
• The influence of autonomous and controlling motives on physical activity intentions within the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

  2002cited by this paper
• Habits in everyday life: thought, emotion, and action.

  2002cited by this paper
• Intention—Behavior Relations: A Conceptual and Empirical Review

  2002influential reference
• Predicting exercise stage transitions over two consecutive 6-month periods: a test of the theory of planned behaviour in a population-based sample.

  2001cited by this paper
• Persuading school-age cyclists to use safety helmets: Effectiveness of an intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

  2001cited by this paper
• Accentuate the negative : Social images in the prediction and promotion of condom use

  2001cited by this paper
• Young adults' intention to eat healthy food: Extending the theory of planned behaviour

  2001cited by this paper
• Theories of reasoned action and planned behavior as models of condom use: a meta-analysis.

  2001cited by this paper
• The automated will: nonconscious activation and pursuit of behavioral goals.

  2001cited by this paper
• Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: a meta-analytic review.

  2001cited by this paper
• Implementation intentions and efficient action initiation.

  2001cited by this paper
• Prediction and Intervention in Health-Related Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of Protection Motivation Theory

  2000cited by this paper
• Enhancing fitness training adherence of elite netball players: An evaluation of Maddux's revised Theory of Planned Behaviour

  2000cited by this paper
• Computer-assisted instruction: an effective instructional method for HIV prevention education?

  2000cited by this paper
• HIV risk reduction behavioral interventions with heterosexual adolescents.

  2000cited by this paper
• The theory of planned behaviour and healthy eating: Examining additive and moderating effects of social influence variables

  2000cited by this paper
• Interventions to prevent weight gain: a systematic review of psychological models and behaviour change methods

  2000cited by this paper
• A meta-analysis of research on protection motivation theory.

  2000cited by this paper
• Protection and vulnerability processes relevant for early onset of substance use: a test among African American children.

  2000cited by this paper
• Tailoring: what's in a name?

  2000cited by this paper
• Temporal stability as a moderator of relationships in the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

  2000cited by this paper
• Behavioral and Social Science Contributions to the Health of Adults in the United States

  2000cited by this paper
• Interpreting cross-sectional data on stages of change

  2000cited by this paper
• Smoking Cessation

  2000cited by this paper
• The impact of new antiretroviral treatments on college students' intention to use a condom with a new sexual partner.

  2000cited by this paper
• Using implementation intentions to increase attendance for cervical cancer screening.

  2000cited by this paper
• A Comparison of Health Behavior Constructs: Social Psychological Predictors of AIDS-Preventive Behavioral Intentions

  2000cited by this paper
• How expectancies shape experience.

  1999cited by this paper
• Does the Temporal Stability of Behavioral Intentions Moderate Intention-Behavior and Past Behavior-Future Behavior Relations?

  1999cited by this paper
• Effects of the brabant smoking prevention programme: A replication of the wisconsin programme

  1999cited by this paper
• Psychosocial correlates of heterosexual condom use: a meta-analysis.

  1999cited by this paper
• Promoting sun protective behaviors through a school-plus-home intervention.

  1999cited by this paper
• Message framing and sunscreen use: gain-framed messages motivate beach-goers.

  1999cited by this paper
• The effects of providing personalized dietary feedback. A semi-computerized approach.

  1999cited by this paper
• Use of Western-based HIV risk-reduction interventions targeting adolescents in an African setting.

  1999cited by this paper
• Implementation intentions: Strong effects of simple plans.

  1999cited by this paper
• Self-regulatory Processes in the Adoption and Maintenance of Health Behaviors

  1999cited by this paper
• Interaction effects in the theory of planned behaviour: studying cannabis use.

  1999cited by this paper
• Expectancies and the social–cognitive perspective: Basic principles, processes, and variables.

  1999cited by this paper
• Message framing and college students' HIV-preventive behavior

  1999cited by this paper
• 'Inclined abstainers': a problem for predicting health-related behaviour.

  1998influential reference
• Abstinence and safer sex HIV risk-reduction interventions for African American adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.

  1998cited by this paper
• Evaluation of a randomized controlled trial of HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention in a genitourinary medicine clinic setting

  1998cited by this paper
• Enhancing parent-child communication about sexual abuse: a pilot study.

  1998cited by this paper
• Do intentions predict condom use? Meta-analysis and examination of six moderator variables.

  1998cited by this paper
• Relationships among the theory of planned behavior, stages of change, and exercise behavior in older persons over a three year period

  1998cited by this paper
• Data analysis in social psychology.

  1998cited by this paper
• On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

  1998cited by this paper
• Adult awareness strategies in AIDS health education.

  1998cited by this paper
• Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles

  1998cited by this paper
• From health beliefs to self-regulation: Theoretical advances in the psychology of action control

  1998cited by this paper

• When "Likers" Go Private: Engagement With Reputationally Risky Content on X

  2026cites this paper
• Seek self in the crowd: Low self-concept clarity enhances collective action participation

  2026cites this paper
• Brief mindfulness meditation can lower health threat avoidance and promote intentions but not behaviors in sleep and screening: experimental evidence.

  2026cites this paper
• Gaming Disorder in the Digital Age: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Online Communities and Patterns of Problematic Gaming Behavior

  2026cites this paper
• Multisensory interaction: exploring the effects of soundscape, landscape, and smellscape on individual comforts and behavioral intentions in urban park

  2026cites this paper
• Factors influencing intention to use home healthcare service in Vietnam: A study using the TAM approach

  2026cites this paper
• Can AI help with the hardest thing: pro health behavior change

  2026cites this paper
• Neuroeconomics and myopia prevention: A framework for public health intervention.

  2026cites this paper
• Intention mining and intention reshaping: surfacing deep intentions by proactive visuals to morph them into new intentions

  2026cites this paper
• Behavioral Economics in People Management: A Critical and Integrative Review

  2026influential citation
• Deciding to drop out of school during compulsory education: Testing developmental and contextual models in students from low-income families

  2026cites this paper
• Targeting behavioral interventions based on past behavior: Evidence from vaccine uptake

  2026cites this paper
• Social acceptance factors of mobility-related policy packages

  2026cites this paper
• Analisis Pengaruh Kebijakan Bank, Kemudahan Akses, dan Efektivitas Iklan terhadap Minat Masyarakat Menggunakan Layanan Perbankan Syariah di Kota Medan

  2026influential citation
• Global competence behavior: exploring the relevance of students’ scientific literacy, related attitudes, and values - evidence from PISA 2018 across 52 countries

  2026cites this paper
• Carbon footprint calculators to support education on sustainable behaviour: a case study applying COM-B with undergraduate students and in-service educators

  2026cites this paper
• From Linear to Interactive Extension: Enhancing Agricultural Communication Through Social Media and Digitalization

  2026cites this paper
• Determinants of K-12 teachers' behavioral intention to use digital textbook platforms: A SEM-fsQCA analysis.

  2026cites this paper
• Optimising the European Code Against Cancer, 5th edition, to increase awareness of avoidable cancer risks in all socioeconomic groups

  2026cites this paper
• How pre-purchase return tendency shapes planned vs. unplanned returns in livestream commerce

  2026cites this paper
• Safe and sound communities: Understanding behavioural influences on preventable injuries

  2026cites this paper
• Unpacking solo driving: how contextual and psychological factors shape commuters’ intentions in the Paris region

  2026cites this paper
• Supportive actions towards people with mental health problems in the community: A national survey of Australian adults.

  2026cites this paper
• Cervical cancer perceived risk factors behavior using logistic regression technique.

  2025cites this paper
• Patient barriers and facilitators to lung cancer screening uptake and intention to screen: a systematic review using the Theoretical Domains Framework

  2025cites this paper
• Respite time-use among dementia caregivers

  2025cites this paper
• Dutch householders’ intentions to adopt shallow geothermal systems for energy transition of existing buildings: A theory of planned behavior approach

  2025cites this paper
• A Longitudinal Insight into the Intentions to Volunteer: Testing the Motivational Paths in a General Population

  2025cites this paper
• Providing Personalized Genetic Feedback for Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders: An Urgent Need for Research

  2025cites this paper
• Lessons Learned in Digital Health Promotion: The Promise and Challenge of Contextual Behavioral Science Methodology in Valuing Intervention Research

  2025cites this paper
• Personal Values for Sustainable Eating: A Preliminary Investigation of a Value-Based Planned Behavior Model

  2025cites this paper
• Green Behavioural Intention and Behaviour of Hotel Employees: Mediation Roles of Customers, Coworkers, Supervisors, and Corporate Attitudes

  2025cites this paper
• Exploring the Effects of Chatbot Anthropomorphism and Human Empathy on Human Prosocial Behavior Toward Chatbots

  2025cites this paper
• Perceptions of recidivism risk among youth on probation for digital sex offences: the role of maladaptive cognitions about the internet

  2025cites this paper
• Supporting integration of substance use interventions in HIV service organizations: Assessing the fit of 10 strategies for AIDS Education and Training Centers to use

  2025cites this paper
• Public perceptions of responsible AI in local government: A multi-country study using the theory of planned behaviour

  2025cites this paper
• From digital traces to public vaccination behaviors: leveraging large language models for big data classification

  2025cites this paper
• Healthcare Costs and Utilization Associated with Participation in the National Fitness Award Program: Analysis using Linked NHIS Data

  2025cites this paper
• Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study

  2025cites this paper
• Does changing behavioral intentions engender actual behavior change? The context of coastal ecological engineering.

  2025cites this paper
• Exploring condom use intentions among urban Black emerging adult men.

  2025cites this paper
• Building the Evidence on Preventing Youth Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Nonrandomized, Quasi-experimental Evaluation of the Not a Number Trafficking Prevention Program.

  2025cites this paper
• App-Based Physical Activity Intervention Among Women With Prior Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorder

  2025cites this paper
• The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions

  2025cites this paper
• When Large Language Models are More PersuasiveThan Incentivized Humans, and Why

  2025cites this paper
• The predictive value of participant subgroups in a temporary alcohol abstinence challenge: compliance with abstinence and changes in drinking behaviour

  2025cites this paper
• Elaboration moderates reliance on metacognitive assessments: The case of attitude certainty

  2025cites this paper
• When Knowledge Falls Short: A Systematic Review on the Correlation of Mental Health Knowledge With Stigma and Help‐Seeking

  2025cites this paper
• Explaining adherence to contrasted physical activity and nutrition scenarios in post-treatment childhood cancer patients: A cross-sectional study using variables from the Theory of Planned Behavior

  2025cites this paper
• Increasing Approval of Novel Recycling Technologies with Education: A Case Study of Multi-Material Plastic

  2025cites this paper
• DMAT隊員における災害活動への意思表示の背後にある思考プロセス(The thought processes behind the activity engagement intentions of Disaster Medical Assistance Team members)

  2025cites this paper
• Nutrition literacy and salt reduction measures: a mediating role of salt reduction intention

  2025influential citation
• Theory-based strategies to enhance interventions for smoking: Relevance to a digital intervention.

  2025cites this paper
• Reply to Dablander et al.: Identifying interventions that change intentions lays a valuable foundation for behavior change

  2025influential citation
• A community pharmacy-based program to enhance adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors (PACHA): protocol for a pilot cluster-randomized controlled trial

  2025influential citation
• Few and far between: a scoping review of the mechanistic evidence in empirical research on household energy-saving interventions

  2025cites this paper
• Evaluation of an online self-paced constructive journalism training course for health reporting

  2025cites this paper
• Extending the Theory of Normative Social Behavior to U.S. Gay and Bisexual Men: Testing How Perceived Social Norms are Related to Mpox Preventive Intentions

  2025cites this paper
• Examining the Relationship Between Perceived Ambiguity and Predictors of Health Behavior Across Three Contexts: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Antibiotic Regimens, and e-Cigarette Use.

  2025cites this paper
• The Influence of Ethical, Sustainable, and Environmental Beliefs on Individual Cryptocurrency Participation in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

  2025cites this paper
• Attitudes, Intentions, and Behavior Change.

  2025cites this paper
• The Role of Psychological Factors in Young Adult Snacking: Exploring the Intention–Behaviour Gap

  2025influential citation
• Deceptive Minds in Digital Spaces: The Influence of the Dark Triad on Posting Fake Online Reviews

  2025cites this paper
• Message Strategies to Mitigate Panic Buying: Factual vs. Moral or Norm Appeals

  2025cites this paper
• A wolf in sheep's clothing? The interplay of perceived threat and social norms in hierarchy‐maintaining action tendencies towards disadvantaged groups

  2025cites this paper
• Dual decision‐making routes for COVID‐19 and influenza vaccines uptake in parents: A mixed‐methods study

  2025cites this paper
• Reinforcing implementation intentions with imagery increases physical activity habit strength and behaviour

  2025cites this paper
• Nationwide demonstration of improved COVID-19 vaccination uptake through behavioural reminders

  2025cites this paper
• Developing a Measure of Trust in Recycled Water

  2025cites this paper
• Development and evaluation of tailored, theory-informed training to support the implementation of an outcome measure: an explanatory sequential mixed method study

  2025cites this paper
• Determining the influence of an intervention of stress management on medical students’ levels of psychophysiological stress: the protocol of the PROMESS-Stress clinical trial

  2025cites this paper
• PVP: An Image Dataset for Personalized Visual Persuasion with Persuasion Strategies, Viewer Characteristics, and Persuasiveness Ratings

  2025cites this paper
• Think Twice—An Intervention Strategy to Reduce Personal Clothing Consumption

  2025cites this paper
• Students’ psychological needs’ frustration in Physical Education and intention to be physically active from a person-centred approach

  2025cites this paper
• Assessing impact of a community-based screening campaign to address social determinants of cervical cancer

  2025cites this paper
• Using Animation to Teach Romantic Relationship Perspective Taking Skills to LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults: A Feasibility Study

  2025cites this paper
• An Evaluation of Health Behavior Change Training for Health and Care Professionals in St. Helena

  2025cites this paper
• Determining the influence of a sleep improvement intervention on medical students’ sleep and fatigue: protocol of the PROMESS-Sleep clinical trial

  2025cites this paper
• Planning a digital detox: Findings from a randomized controlled trial to reduce smartphone usage time

  2025cites this paper
• The evolution of customer defection intentions in the online travel agency industry

  2025cites this paper
• The Effects of a 24-Week Combined Circuit Training and Mobility Program on the Physical Fitness and Body Composition of an Adult Academic Community

  2025cites this paper
• Increasing drivers’ intentions to use Intelligent speed Assistance: A randomised controlled trial of a theory of planned behaviour-based intervention

  2025cites this paper
• Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions.

  2025cites this paper
• Does It Matter to the C‐Suite? The Role of Top Management in a Purchasing Manager's Responsible Sourcing Intentions

  2025cites this paper
• Empowering and Promoting Children’s Rights by Implementing Skills Labs Using Engaging Learning Activities

  2025cites this paper
• Weight loss advice from a healthcare provider is motivating, but it is also stigmatizing: an experimental, scenario-based approach.

  2025cites this paper
• Testing the purported mechanisms of the AgingPLUS intervention: Effects on physical activity outcomes.

  2025cites this paper
• Variable Message Signs (VMS) for Road Safety: The Combination of Message Framing and Colour Priming and on the Effectiveness of Seat Belt Usage Campaign

  2025cites this paper
• Off-Label Explorations: Beta Blockers Misuse among University Students in Jordan

  2025cites this paper
• Perspective-Taking and Reactions Toward Poor Performers in Groups: A Scoping Review and Discussion

  2025cites this paper
• Navigating the design of simulated exercising peers: insights from a participatory design study

  2025cites this paper
• Leveraging brief video interventions to increase treatment‐seeking among depressed youth: a randomized controlled trial

  2025cites this paper
• International Parent Perceptions of the Relationship Between Physical Activity and Academic Achievement for Their Children: An Exploratory Study

  2025cites this paper
• 'Go Crowded' Advertising Strategy: Increase Travel Agency Intent, Recommendations, and Engagement

  2025cites this paper
• Environmental footprinting for greener gardens: how might personalised calculations of gardening impacts deliver behaviour change?

  2025cites this paper
• Addressing medical students' health challenges: codesign and pilot testing of the Preventive Remediation for Optimal MEdical StudentS (PROMESS) program

  2025cites this paper
• On the road to sustainability: Applying an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour model to energy-saving transportation practices

  2025influential citation
• Transparency as a Trust Catalyst: How Self-Disclosure Strategies Reshape Consumer Perceptions of Unhealthy Food Brands on Digital Platforms

  2025cites this paper
• Communication interventions to reduce parental vaccine hesitancy: A systematic review.

  2025cites this paper
• Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory (COMET): The Feasibility and Acceptability of a Rural Community-Based Strategy to Prevent Mental and Emotional Health Problems

  2025cites this paper