Evidence for the self-perception theory has also been seen in real life situations.

For therapies, self-perception theory holds a different view of psychological problems from the traditional perspectives.

Thus, for a period of time, it seemed the debate between self-perception theory and cognitive dissonance had ended.

The self-perception theory is another theory in which a person infers about themselves through their behavior.

However, when the essay fell in the latitude of acceptance, the results favoured self-perception theory.

According to self-perception theory, a person infers causes about his or her own behavior based on external constraints.

Chaiken and Baldwin's 1981 study on self-perception theory dealt with environmental attitudes.

Self-perception theory, then, has strong ties to social identity and social influence in this scenario.

Self-perception theory is a competing theory of attitude change.

Self-perception theory is also an underlying mechanism for the effectiveness of many marketing or persuasive techniques.

According to the self-perception theory, people infer their attitudes from their own behavior much as an outside observer might.

Similarly, Goldstein and Cialdini published work related to self-perception theory in 2007.

These results are not explainable by self-perception theory, as arousal should have nothing to do with the mechanism underlying attitude change.

There are numerous studies conducted by psychologists that support the self-perception theory, demonstrating that emotions do follow behaviors.

Self-perception theory posits that people determine their attitudes and preferences by interpreting the meaning of their own behavior.

Under low choice, all participants exhibited no attitude change, which would be predicted by both cognitive dissonance theory and self-perception theory.

Bem's self-perception theory makes a similar assumption.

Bem used a series of employed self-perception theory to try to reduce anxiety in heterosocially anxious or shy college students.

However, self-perception theory perspective suggests that people derive their inner feelings or abilities from their external behaviors.

A major debate among attitude researchers in the 1970s concerned whether cognitive dissonance theory or self-perception theory best accounted for how people's attitudes change.

One useful application of the self-perception theory is in changing attitude, both therapeutically and in terms of persuasion.

The key elements in self-perception theory are explanations people give for their actions, these explanations are known as causal attributions.

Three social psychological theories include: the self-perception theory, the overjustification hypothesis, and the insufficient justification hypothesis:

Daryl Bem's (1972) self-perception theory claims that when internal cues are difficult to interpret, people gain self-insight by observing their own behavior.

According to self-perception theory, people pay more attention to the external reward for an activity than to the inherent enjoyment and satisfaction received from the activity itself.