In human psychology, the attitude–behaviour gap is a perceived disconnection between someone’s attitudes and their actions, or alternatively between their first-order (immediate) privacy preferences and their secondorder preferences (preferences about which preferences they should hold). A specific instance of this is the privacy paradox, the claim that many people have a strong positive attitude about their privacy which is belied by their cavalier treatment of their personal data.
Further reading:
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L. and Loewenstein, G. 2015. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science, 347(6221), 509–14, https://doi.org.10.1126/science.aaa1465.
Godin, G., Connor, M. and Sheeran, P., 2005. Bridging the intention–behaviour gap: the role of moral norm. British Journal for Social Psychology, 44(4), 497–512, https://doi.org/10.1348/014466604X17452.
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Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L. and Loewenstein, G. 2015. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science, 347(6221), 509–14, https://doi.org.10.1126/science.aaa1465.
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Godin, G., Connor, M. and Sheeran, P., 2005. Bridging the intention–behaviour gap: the role of moral norm. British Journal for Social Psychology, 44(4), 497–512, https://doi.org/10.1348/014466604X17452.
