How do habits guide behavior? Perceived and actual triggers of habits in daily life

By David T. Neal, Wendy Wood, J. Labrecque, Phillippa Lally. 2012

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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On the Go: How Mobile Shopping Affects Customer Purchase Behavior (2015, background): “Additionally, habitual behavior is reinforced by contexts and past performances (Neal et al. 2012).”
A visual analytics approach to understanding cycling behaviour (2012, neutral): “We evaluated six different conﬁgurations of CILP++ in order to explore some of the capabilities of the approach: three versions of CILP++ trained with standard backpropagation, each one using three sizes of background knowledge, and three versions of CILP++ trained with early stopping (Prechelt,…”
Habit as automaticity, not frequency (2012, background): “Automaticity should be seen as the ‘active ingredient’ of a habit, and repetition frequency as its precursor and possible consequence (Sniehotta & Presseau, 2012).”
Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications (2016, neutral): “individual factors and dynamics tend to create stable equilibria that may be suboptimal for planetary health but are difﬁcult to .”
Not All Repeat Customers Are the Same: Designing Effective Cross-Selling Promotion on the Basis of Attitudinal Loyalty and Habit (2013, background): “When a habitual consumer encounters an offer that fits the goal of getting better value, such an implicit goal can be triggered (Neal et al. 2012) and can switch the consumer to conscious decision making about the next purchase.”
Psychology of Habit. (2016, background): “Consistent with this view, Neal et al. (2012) found that runners with strong running habits automatically brought to mind thoughts of running and jogging when exposed to words designating the physical locations in which they typically ran.”
Habit formation and change (2018, background): “People commonly use volitional, goal-directed explanations for why they perform habits, even when intentions and goals fail to guide actual performance [8].”
Does habit weaken the relationship between intention and behaviour? Revisiting the habit‐intention interaction hypothesis (2020, background): “The horse race metaphor encapsulates a key prediction within habit theory: in stable and familiar settings, habit impulses will preside over intentions in regulating behaviour (Landis, Triandis, & Adamopoulos, 1978; Neal et al., 2012; Triandis, 1977).”