ATTITUDES AND INTENTIONS Intentions have often been viewed as the"conative component of attitude," and it has usually been assumed that this conative component is related to the attitude's affective component. This conceptualization has led to the assumption of a strong relation between attitudes and intentions. Until recently, the conative component of attitude has been submitted to little empirical investigation, and the relation between attitude and intention has been largely neglected. However, many investi gations designed to study the relation between attitude and behavior have actually not observed behavior but have instead used measures of behavioral intentions as their criteria. These studies provide some information about the attitude-intention relation Evidence concerning the attitude-intention relation. A series of investigations have obtained measures of subjects' attitudes toward blacks and have asked the subjects to indicate their willingness to be photographed with a black person and to sign release forms for the photographs. Although the signing of a release form has usu- ally been viewed as an overt behavior, to regard it as an intention seems more appropriate since the photographs are not taken and the releases are therefore hypothetical(see Ajzen et al., 1970) In the first study of this series(DeFleur and Westie, 1958), subjects high and low in prejudice toward blacks were asked to indicate their willingness to pose for a photograph with a Negro person of the opposite sex. Irrespective of their response, they were then shown seven standard photographic release. agreements which consisted of a graded series of situations in which the pho- tographs might be used. Subjects could sign as many of the agreements as they saw fit. The complete form used is presented in Table 7.1. Note that the release agreements represent situational variations in terms of the amount of publicity the photograph would receive. DeFleur and Westie found a low but significant rela tion between attitudes toward blacks and the number of photographic releases that subjects signed Several subsequent investigations have also used the picture-release tech nique. In an attempt to replicate and extend the DeFleur and Westie study, Linn(1965) found no significant relation between attitudes and intentions. Similarly, studies by Darroch(1971) and J. A. Green(1972) have also revealed nonsigni