system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Do we act in accordance to what we think is rational or does is rational determined by our actions?

What kind of reading should I do to understand, do we act in accordance to what we think is ~~rational~~ meaningful or does is our values which ~~rational~~ determined by our actions?

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Maybe I mean, values rather than rational.
gpt
More of a cognitive/social psychology question. There's various famous theories addressing this, most prominently: cognitive dissonance, and self perception theory. Either way, they both came about to explain why behavior often determines attitudes, as demonstrated in many studies.

There's a bunch of criteria for predicting when behavior is more likely to determine behavior and visa versa by I've forgotten what they are.