ATTITUDE VS
BEHAVIOUR
Our behaviors are greatly
influenced by our attitudes. What we learn from our society and environment, we
use them in our life and behave in similar way in similar situations. We can
say that our behaviors are also somewhat controlled by the condition or situation
we are working or acting in. we can conclude that behavior is the use and
revelation of our attitudes in different social situations, subjected to
different social norms and conditions.
In general times and in normal
cases our behavior is guided by our inherent attitudes and we don’t feel any
discomfort in such times and enjoy the particular situation and continue to
behave in that way. We all humans have a very fundamental attitude that is we
love to stay and continue in the most favorable state and with most favorable company.
That is why we feel better when we are with our friends or relatives or with
known persons as compared to strangers or new persons. That is why people take
time to adapt with and understand new persons. It is called social adaption or
cognitive adaption.
In some situations our behaviors divert from our attitude and even
become totally opposite. In such cases the social environment or the situation
is powerful enough to influence the person to act or behave in a way
contradictory to his personal attitude. For example, A person starting from his
childhood don’t like spicy food and feel irritated with such food. But during
his adulthood days he had a romantic partner and one day she invited him to her
home to have a dinner with her parents. The boy went there and found moist of
the dishes are spicy and full of chilly. Still he took the dinner with a smile
in his face and when asked by his girlfriend about the food items, he said the
foods were very delicious even if he didn’t like them. In this case the
person’s behavior was totally against his true attitude. Here the person was
influenced by the situation and thus acted against his attitude. Though he had
a smile in his face but actually he didn’t liked the food and was not
comfortable with them. So we can infer from the above discussion that in some
situations our behavior diverts from our attitude and in some situations we
behave totally opposite to our attitudes. And in such situations we feel
uncomfortable as the action or activity we are undergoing is not favorable to
our true attitude.
Here we get a very strange
argument that is, such transition or diversion from our attitude in our social
behavior can occur in general times when there is no external pressure on the
person concerned. But during extreme conditions, when there pressure on a
person, he always rely upon his attitudes to deal with such situation. Under
pressure the true attitude of a person comes out and person concerned also
consciously or subconsciously act per his inherent attitudes and simply don’t
get a chance to think about the situation and make adjustment with his attitude
to behave in a more acceptable or effective way. We can increase the pressure
on a person in different ways like giving less time to decide or act on a
particular problem or issue. Such pressure is called time pressure and under
time pressures a normal person bank upon his original attitudes to deal with
the situation. That is why in certain psychological tastings “time pressure” is
used as an effective tool to bring out the true attitude of a candidate.
So it is very important to
have a good set of attitudes as in extreme situations we have to bank upon them
consciously or subconsciously. Under such conditions we hardly get any time or
chance to plan or decide about our further action or behavior.
Ø Our behaviors are greatly dependent on our attitudes
and in normal situations when there is no pressure, we sometimes behave in
strange ways diverting from our true attitudes. But under extreme conditions
or under pressure we always bank upon our true attitudes as we don’t get any
time or chance to decide or plan our further action or behavior under such
situations.
Ø So it is very necessary for all of us to inculcate
good and strong attitudes so that they will help us in dealing with extreme
situations and to work under pressure. A person with good attitudes handles a
tough and challenging situation in an effective manner because he has
complete faith in his abilities and attitudes.
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