Highlights•By acting on beneficial habits, people have an automated means of self-
control.•Interventions to change habits are more successful when environments are …

Highlights•Insensitivity to devaluation could be due to habits or weak goal-directed
control.•Limited direct evidence for habits as a function of behavioral repetition in …

Why do individuals fail to exercise regularly despite knowledge of the risks associated with
physical inactivity? Automatic processes regulating exercise behaviors may partly explain …

Effective decision-making involves multiple steps to reduce a nearly limitless set of available
choices to a final selection. The attention system plays a critical early role in this process by …

Highlights•Attention is powerfully affected by our prior experiences.•Reward-related stimuli
continue to capture attention when no longer task-relevant.•Stimuli that previously signaled …

Reward-learning theory views habits as stimulus–response links formed through extended
reward training. Accordingly, animal research has shown that actions that are initially goal …

There is a great deal of interest concerning how e-commerce in China can be developed in
sustainable ways. Answering this question requires not only the strategic management at …

Highlights•Prior experience can induce long-lasting changes in attention.•Habit-like
attention ranges from reading direction to statistical and reward learning.•Several hundred …

In natural environments objects comprise multiple features from the same or different
sensory modalities but it is not known how perception of an object is affected by the value …

Recent studies of visual search suggest that learning about valued outcomes (rewards and
punishments) influences the likelihood that distractors will capture spatial attention and slow …