Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Habits & Behaviour Change
A topic within Habits & Behaviour Change, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Wendy Wood, Jeffrey M. Quinn & Deborah A. Kashy
A diary study finds roughly 45 percent of everyday behaviour recurs in the same location at the same time each day, and that these habitual acts are accompanied by less thought and weaker deliberate intention than one-off actions.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Gaby Judah, Benjamin Gardner & Robert Aunger
Tracks people building a new flossing habit and finds automaticity grows fastest when the same cue and reward are repeated in the same context every day, isolating consistency of the cue-routine-reward sequence as the active ingredient.