Effects of attitude base and affective-cognitive consistency on intergroup instrumental behaviors in Study 2.

This figure was plotted by using the unstandardized regression weights with affective-cognitive consistency along the abscissa at + 1 SD from the mean. Lower affective-cognitive consistency scores signified higher affective-cognitive consistency of group attitudes. Similarly, lower attitude-behavior consistency scores indicated a stronger relation between attitudes and behaviors. Results representing the moderating role of affective-cognitive consistency in the effects of affectively-based and cognitively-based attitudes on intergroup instrumental behaviors show that cognitively-based attitudes predicted intergroup instrumental behaviors more strongly than affectively-based attitudes only when affective-cognitive consistency was high.