A new look at habits and the habit-goal interface.

By Wendy Wood, David T. Neal. Psychology Review, 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Empowering interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles: Testing the habit discontinuity hypothesis in a field experiment (2016, background): “Habits are learned dispositions to repeat past responses (Wood & Neal, 2007; Wood & Rünger, 2016).”
Planning promotes goal striving. (2011, background): “The self-regulation of one's goal striving becomes difficult when habitual responses conflict with initiating and executing the needed goal-directed responses that are instrumental to goal attainment (e.g., Wood & Neal, 2007).”
A Three–Part Framework for Self–Regulated Personality Development across Adulthood (2014, background): “Through frequent context–behaviour pairings, the once effortful pursuit of the goal to be more organized and reliable has become automatized, unconscious and effortless (e.g. Danner, Aarts, & de Vries, 2008; Lally, Van Jaarsveld, Potts, & Wardle, 2010; Wood & Neal, 2007).”
Goal Priming and the Affective-Motivational Route to Nonconscious Goal Pursuit (2008, background): “…of habits: reflexive processes that, once activated, follow a well-practiced route to completion (Aarts, 2007a; Cooper & Shallice, 2006; but see Wood & Neal, 2007; for a more conventional approach to habits in terms of s-r links that are not organized by goals, and hence independent of…”
Promoting habit formation (2013, methodology): “This has given rise to models of habit as cue-responses formed via repeated performance of actions which are initially typically deliberative, but become regulated by an impulsive cognitive system (Strack & Deutsch, 2004; Wood & Neal, 2007).”
A Memory Systems Model of Implicit Social Cognition (2011, background): “For instance, researchers have invoked properties of the instrumental memory system to explain intuition (Lieberman, 2000) and the role of habits in consumer decisions (Wood & Neal, 2007).”
Dealing with feeling: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation. (2012, background): “One interpretation of these findings might be that people find it easier to regulate amusement or sadness than other forms of emotion, perhaps because these emotions are more frequently encountered and regulated (see Wood & Neal, 2007, for a review on the development of habitual responding).”
The Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion: Developing health promotions for sustained behavioral change. (2009, background): “These include social norms, (Goldstein and Cialdini, 2007; Fishbein and Ajzen, 1975), the strength of the attitude (Petty and Krosnick, 1995), feelings of self-efficacy and competence (Bandura, 1986), and prior behaviors and habits (Triandis, 1980; Wood and Neal, 2007).”
How do habits guide behavior? Perceived and actual triggers of habits in daily life (2012, background): “Having cast off the strictures of behaviorism, psychologists are showing renewed interest in the psychological processes that guide everyday habits (Verplanken & Aarts, 1999; Webb & Sheeran, 2006; Wood & Neal, 2007).”
Does habit weaken the relationship between intention and behaviour? Revisiting the habit‐intention interaction hypothesis (2020, background): “Habitual behaviour arises rapidly and efficiently: contextual cues trigger a network of cue-behaviour associations, which activate impulses to act in the potential absence of a valued goal, with little or no awareness or volitional control (Neal, Wood, Labrecque, & Lally, 2012; Wood & Neal, 2007).”
Not All Repeat Customers Are the Same: Designing Effective Cross-Selling Promotion on the Basis of Attitudinal Loyalty and Habit (2013, background): “We surmise that this precedence of routine adaptation and optimization over conscious goals can be explained by the lower cognitive resources needed to modify a routine than to pursue a conscious goal (Wood and Neal 2007).”
How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world (2010, background): “As discussed above, Wood and Neal (2007) have suggested that repeating complex tasks may result in goal-directed automaticity, which is distinct from habit (it is flexible and remains tied to the original goal).”