Habit Formation

A topic within Behavioural Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Habit Formation

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Paper2010

How Are Habits Formed: Modelling Habit Formation in the Real World

Phillippa Lally, Cornelia H. M. van Jaarsveld, Henry W. W. Potts & Jane Wardle

Tracking people forming a new daily habit, finds automaticity levelled off after a median of 66 days, not the widely repeated figure of 21, and that missing a single day did not materially harm the habit's formation.

Psychology · Behavioural Psychology

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Paper2015

A Review and Analysis of the Use of 'Habit' in Understanding, Predicting and Influencing Health-Related Behaviour

Benjamin Gardner

Reviews decades of loosely and inconsistently defined uses of 'habit' in health research and argues habit strength should be measured as automaticity itself, not inferred backward from how often a behaviour merely repeats.

Psychology · Behavioural Psychology

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Reading on Habit Formation

How Are Habits Formed: Modelling Habit Formation in the Real World

A Review and Analysis of the Use of 'Habit' in Understanding, Predicting and Influencing Health-Related Behaviour

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