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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BJ Fogg (Stanford)
Argues that behaviour change fails when it relies on motivation, and that a habit sticks when the action is made small enough to need almost none and is anchored to something already happening.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Wendy Wood & Dennis Rünger
Reviews the habit literature and argues habits are context-cued impulses that run independently of current goals or motivation, which is why intending to change is a poor predictor of whether behaviour actually changes.
link checked 17 Sept 2026