Habits make up large part of our behavioral and cognitive lives, with research suggesting
that nearly half of our daily behaviors are repeated in the same place almost every day (Neal …

original article habits as automaticity 33 ehp volume 14 issue 2 automaticity (Lally, van
Jaarsveld, Potts & Wardle, 2010). In a qualitative study, participants repeating weight-loss …

Habits are automatic behavioural responses to environmental cues, thought to develop
through repetition of behaviour in consistent contexts. When habit is strong, deliberate …

Background Researchers are working to identify dynamic factors involved in the shift from
behavioral initiation to maintenance—factors which may depend on behavioral complexity …

The present chapter presents an introduction and a brief overview of psychological
approaches toward the understanding of habit. It addresses the definition, formation …

Background Forming a habit-ie, a cue-behaviour association learned through repeated
performance-has been proposed to promote behaviour maintenance, but some …

We seldom do things for the first time. Most of our everyday behaviors are recurrences or
variants of behaviors we have previously executed, most of which numerous times. The …