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

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 …

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

Objective Habitual behaviours are triggered automatically, with little conscious forethought.
Theory suggests that making healthy behaviours habitual, and breaking the habits that …

For this week's post I'm shifting gears a bit and writing about habit change, which is a difficult
feat for many people to accomplish. Habit change is a very important topic for health, and …

Humans are creatures of habit, as the saying goes, and the evidence is mounting that many
of our bad habits are growing at a steady pace. Numerous studies indicate that people …

After we have practiced a task extensively, we often struggle to adapt to changes in task
requirements, 7 committing frequent habitual “slips of action” where we revert to our …

Habits are largely absent from modern social and personality psychology. This is due to
outdated perspectives that placed habits in conflict with goals. In modern theorizing, habits …

Maladaptive habits are behavioral patterns of inflexible behavior that reflect poor self-control
and occur despite their harmful consequences. Those behaviors lead to undesirable …