Breaking and creating habits on the working floor : A field- experiment on the power of implementation intentions

By Rob W. Holland, Henk Aarts, D. Langendam. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Self-efficacy Feelings Moderate Implementation Intention Effects (2010, background): “For example, implementation intentions benefit goal attainment even when goal striving is limited by opponents (eg, in tennis matches, Achtziger et al, 2008, or negotiations, Trotschel & Gollwitzer, 2007 ) or automatic antagonistic responses (eg, habitual failure to recycle waste, Holland, Aarts, &”
Mindfulness and Sustainable Behavior: Pondering Attention and Awareness as Means for Increasing Green Behavior (2009, neutral): “…habits are less sustainable than they could be (e.g., brushing teeth with the water running, driving alone to work, never bringing a reusable cup to the coffee shop), and they are likely to stay that way unless we exert substantial effort to change them (Holland, Aarts, & Langendam, 2006).”
Interventions to Break and Create Consumer Habits (2006, background): “In contrast, habits continue to be performed regardless of people’s intentions (see Figure 1, Panels A and B). As such, implementation intentions represent a promising starting point for establishing habits ( Holland, Aarts, and Langendam 2006; Verplanken 2005).”
Changing Behaviour: Successful Environmental Programmes in the Workplace (2015, background): “Provision of environmental infrastructure was important, including not only installing equipment such as recycling bins (Holland et al., 2006; Wu et al., 2013) or bicycle facilities (Cairns et al.”
Promoting habit formation (2013, background): “In an intervention to promote recycling of paper among office workers, Holland et al. (2006) altered the environment by placing attractive recycling boxes next to waste paper baskets and found that this had a significant impact on recycling behaviour.”
The habitual consumer. (2009, background): “Subjective estimates may be more accurate at assessing what people actually do than recall of specific numbers (Holland et al., 2006 ).”
Breaking the Habit: On the Highly Habitualized Nature of Meat Consumption and Implementation Intentions as One Effective Way of Reducing It (2018, background): “…for a meta-analysis, see Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006), in promoting the adoption of new desired behaviors (e.g., eating more fruit and vegetables; Wiedemann, Lippke, Reuter, Ziegelmann, & Schwarzer, 2011) as well as in changing undesired habits (e.g., nonrecycling habits; Holland et al., 2006).”
Weakness of the will: Is a quick fix possible? (2014, background): “Moreover, to start eating a low-fat diet (Armitage 2004), to recycle (Holland et al. 2006), to engage in more physical exercise (Milne et al. 2002), to use public transportation rather than one’s own car (Bamberg 2000), and to purchase organically produced food (Bamberg 2002) were all found to be…”
Planning promotes goal striving. (2011, background): “But can the self- regulation strategy of forming if–then plans help people to let their goals win out over their habitual responses? By assuming that action control by implementation intentions is immediate and efficient, and adopting a simple racehorse model of action control (Gurney, Prescott, & R”