How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world

By Phillippa Lally, C. V. Jaarsveld, Henry W. W. Potts, J. Wardle. 2010

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

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Citations in the corpus

Not All Repeat Customers Are the Same: Designing Effective Cross-Selling Promotion on the Basis of Attitudinal Loyalty and Habit (2013, background): “Habit is developed through associative learning in which behavior repetition in a consistent context increases the automaticity of the behavior when the contextual cue is encountered (Lally et al. 2010).”
The inner speech of behavioral regulation: Intentions and task performance strengthen when you talk to yourself as a You (2014, positive): “According to the habit theory and research, repetition of a behavior in a consistent context reinforces amental context–behavior association, such that encountering the context can automatically trigger the associated habitual behavior (Lally et al., 2010; Wood & Neal, 2007).”
Beyond Self-Report: Tools to Compare Estimated and Real-World Smartphone Use (2015, background): “Oulasvirta and colleagues made this claim in 2012, however this is the first paper to demonstrate that rapid mobile phone interactions are habitual [25].”
Towards parsimony in habit measurement: Testing the convergent and predictive validity of an automaticity subscale of the Self-Report Habit Index (2012, methodology): “According to this viewpoint, repeated performance is an antecedent (and consequence) of automaticity [3,15,23], and so the contribution of past behaviour to habit should be reflected by the extent to which behaviours are automatically activated.”
A review and analysis of the use of ‘habit’ in understanding, predicting and influencing health-related behaviour (2014, background): “It also incorporates the cue-dependence, automaticity and conditioned stimulus-response associations that characterise and distinguish habitual action from other forms of automatic behaviour (Gardner et al., 2012; Lally et al., 2010; Orbell & Verplanken, 2010; Wood & Neal, 2009).”
Habit formation and change (2018, background): “The slow pace of habit learning was shown with a variety of health habits, such as exercising, that develop with weeks or months of repetition in stable contexts [43].”