Attitude change through cognitive fluency manipulation - age effects

The experiment attempts to integrate retrieval fluency in the theoretical framework of attitude - behaviour relationships, especially regarding behaviour-based attitude change. Our general goals were to insert and validate a new technique of inducing cognitive dissonance - low retrieval fluency of pro-attitudinal behaviours and to evaluate in this methodological context each modern perspective on attitude change mediated by classical cognitive dissonance. Also, we took into account participants' age (from 20 to 45 years old), results showing a significant interaction between cognitive fluency and age, in the sense that the higher the age, the lesser the effect of retrieval fluency on attitudes.