Changing Human Behavior to Prevent Disease: The Importance of Targeting Automatic Processes

By T. Marteau, G. Hollands, Paul C. Fletcher. Science, 2012

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape (2015, background): “There is increasing consensus that dietary choices are often driven by habit, subtle cues and differences within the food environment, and less by knowledge and conscious choice (Wansink 2007; Marteau et al. 2012; Chadwick et al. 2013; Hawkes 2013).”
The taste of cutlery: how the taste of food is affected by the weight, size, shape, and colour of the cutlery used to eat it (2013, background): “[2] have recently suggested that product design, or, more generally, environmental changes, constitute a promising avenue for improving people’s consumption behaviours.”
Unresolved questions in nudging research: Putting the psychology back in nudging (2017, methodology): “…the popularity of nudging may have contributed to some debates being raised before having a complete understanding of the concept, such as the use and public approval of nudges, which may harm this promising tool to change behavior (Bovens, 2009; De Ridder, 2014; Marteau et al., 2012; Yeung, 2012).”
Psychology of Habit. (2016, background): “Addressing the role of habit learning is a central challenge for the next generation of behavior change interventions (Marteau et al. 2012, Rothman et al. 2015).”
Increasing Vaccination: Putting Psychological Science Into Action (2017, background): “Yet because the observed magnitude of these effects have proven modest, investigators have begun to explore the hypothesis that people also hold implicit (or nonconscious) thoughts and feelings about behavior that may affect their behavioral decisions (Marteau et al., 2012; Sheeran et al., 2016; She”
Habit formation and change (2018, background): “Next, we examine how our understanding of how to change habits is being transformed by research on self-control [12 ] and the way environmental, as well as intrapsychic, forces contribute to habit change [13,14].”
Post-green revolution food systems and the triple burden of malnutrition (2013, positive): “However, recent behavioral research suggests that “the potential for information-based interventions is fundamentally limited, given that it is based on a view of human behavior that is at odds with psychological and neuroscientific evidence that much human behavior is not actually driven by deliber”
Mindfulness and sustainability (2014, background): “Although automaticity can be beneficial in many circumstances, it can also have a range of undesirable effects on the individual, for instance related to health and well-being, because habitual behavior might not be susceptible to adjustments aimed at rational and reflective thought (Marteau et al.,”
Why is changing health-related behaviour so difficult? (2016, background): “24,25 The proposition of nudge is that much of our behaviour is driven by automatic responses requiring little cognitive engagement, controlled by our state of mind and triggered by features of the environment.”