Changing circumstances, disrupting habits.

By Wendy Wood, Leona Tam, Melissa Guerrero Witt. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005

658 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Benjamin Gardner
2. Wendy Wood
3. Phillippa Lally
4. Bas Verplanken
5. David T. Neal
6. Dennis Rünger
7. Martin S. Hagger
8. Kevin Maréchal

In Social Psychology

1. Eric Rietzschel
2. Wolfgang Stroebe
3. B. Nijstad
4. Wendy Wood
5. David T. Neal
6. Bas Verplanken
7. Martin S. Hagger
8. Benjamin Gardner

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Benjamin Gardner
2. Phillippa Lally
3. Wendy Wood
4. David T. Neal
5. Bas Verplanken
6. Martin S. Hagger
7. Wolfgang Stroebe
8. Eric Rietzschel

Citations in the corpus

• Health and goal-directed behavior: The nonconscious regulation and motivation of goals and their pursuit (2007, background): “In another line of research, Ouellette and Wood (1998) and Wood, Tam, and Guerrero-Witt (2005) argued that frequency of past behavior may not be an optimal (or the sole) indication of habit strength.”
• Towards parsimony in habit measurement: Testing the convergent and predictive validity of an automaticity subscale of the Self-Report Habit Index (2012, background): “habits, because people tend to behave in line with their habits even when motivated not to do so [6].”
• Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures (2020, background): “In general, cue disruptions force people to respond more thoughtfully and rely on their intentions to act, with the result that they continue behaviors they intend to perform and discontinue ones they do not (Wood et al., 2005).”
• An Evolutionary Perspective on the Economics of Energy Consumption: The Crucial Role of Habits (2009, background): “This is supported by the evidence contained in Wood et al. (2005) that shows how a change of location would induce decisions to be more in line with intentions that with habits.”
• Psychology of Habit. (2016, background): “Life transitions that alter habit cues can provide a window of opportunity to act on new intentions without competition from old habits (Wood et al. 2005).”
• Temporal self-regulation theory: A model for individual health behavior (2007, background): “The exact mechanism by which this takes place is beyond the scope of this model however, as described, some have suggested that habit strength is generated when behaviors are performed with high frequency in stable situational contexts (Ouellette & Wood, 1998 ; Wood, Tam, & Witt, 2005 ).”
• Empowering interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles: Testing the habit discontinuity hypothesis in a field experiment (2016, background): “A disruption is a temporary condition, and once a person has settled into the new situation, old habits may easily be re-activated (e.g., Walker et al., 2015; Wood & Rünger, 2016; Wood et al., 2005).”
• 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”
• The Fresh Start Effect: Temporal Landmarks Motivate Aspirational Behavior (2014, positive): “In fact, there is evidence that routine changes can disrupt beneficial habits such as reading the newspaper (Wood et al. 2005).”