Interventions to Break and Create Consumer Habits

By Bas Verplanken, Wendy Wood. 2006

1,227 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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In Applied Psychology

1. Benjamin Gardner
2. Wendy Wood
3. Phillippa Lally
4. Bas Verplanken
5. S. Bamberg
6. P. Sheeran
7. C. Abraham
8. G. Maio

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Benjamin Gardner
2. C. Klöckner
3. Phillippa Lally
4. Wendy Wood
5. S. Bamberg
6. David T. Neal
7. Bas Verplanken
8. C. Abraham

In Marketing

1. C. Klöckner
2. David T. Neal
3. John G. Lynch
4. Benjamin Gardner
5. S. Bamberg
6. Caroline Moraes
7. Kevin Maréchal
8. Phillippa Lally

Citations in the corpus

• Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour (2015, background): “, offering ‘free trial’ periods or ‘try-before-you-buy’ programmes, or simply presenting options neutrally to elicit an active choice) should capitalise on salient ‘trigger points’ in peoples’ lives, that is, significant life events such as moving house, marriage or the birth of a child, when automa”
• Helping "light green" consumers walk the talk: Results of a behavioural intervention survey in the Swiss electricity market (2011, neutral): “1998; Verplanken and Wood, 2006; cf. also Fishbein, 1995, Jackson, 2005; Stern, 1999).”
• A new look at habits and the habit-goal interface. (2007, background): “Building on these findings, Verplanken and Wood (2006) proposed that naturally occurring changes in performance contexts such as moving houses or changing jobs can be treated as opportunities for habit change interventions.”
• Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour (2007, background): “At the moment the concepts of implementation intention (e.g., Gollwitzer, 1999) and habit (Verplanken & Wood, 2006) are discussed as additional independent behavioural predictors.”
• Social psychological factors in lifestyle change and their relevance to policy (2007, methodology): “Upstream Interventions “Upstream” interventions aim to elicit changes in the performance environments, such that undesired habits are prevented and desired habits can flourish (Verplanken & Wood, 2006).”
• Motivating Sustainable Food Choices (2014, background): “For example, habitual behaviors tend to be resistant to information provision unless accompanied by a disruption of the environmental cues that trigger them (Verplanken & Wood, 2006).”
• The habitual consumer. (2009, methodology): “Context change is a powerful ally in changing habits because it frees people to establish new patterns of behavior in the absence of competing habit cues (Verplanken & Wood, 2006).”