Although you may spend the evening surfing the Internet rather than studying, you have generally been quite a disciplined student throughout your academic career and have always held the attitude that studying is important. The relationship between your studying behavior and your attitude toward studying can best be described by which social psychological term?
A) moral hypocrisy
B) behavioral inconsistency
C) the ABCs of attitudes
D) the principle of aggregation

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The principle of aggregation states that people's attitudes better predict their overall patterns of behavior rather than a specific instance. In this scenario, the individual's occasional evening of not studying does not negate their overall attitude and behavior of valuing studying.

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