Maintenance of prior behaviour can enhance cultural selection [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Many cultural phenomena evolve through a Darwinian process whereby adaptive variants are selected and spread at the expense of competing variants.
Bradley Walker +3 more
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Delivery fidelity of the REACT (REtirement in ACTion) physical activity and behaviour maintenance intervention for community dwelling older people with mobility limitations [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Fidelity assessment of behaviour change interventions is vital to understanding trial outcomes. This study assesses the delivery fidelity of behaviour change techniques used in the Retirement in ACTion (REACT) randomised controlled trial ...
Rosina Cross +4 more
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Facilitating goal-oriented behaviour in the Stroop task: when executive control is influenced by automatic processing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 A portion of Stroop interference is thought to arise from a failure to maintain goal-oriented behaviour (or goal neglect). The aim of the present study was to investigate whether goal- relevant primes could enhance goal maintenance and reduce the Stroop ...
Benjamin A Parris +3 more
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The STRENGTH Study: A cluster randomised controlled trial of the effect of a behaviour change intervention added to cardiac rehabilitation on physical activity adherence. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundCoronary heart disease is the leading cause of global mortality, imposing significant health and economic burdens. Cardiac rehabilitation, including physical activity, can reduce coronary heart disease-related morbidity and mortality. We tested
Clare T M Doherty +9 more
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PLoS ONE, 2014 Financial (positive or negative) and non-financial incentives or rewards are increasingly used in attempts to influence health behaviours. While unintended consequences of incentive provision are discussed in the literature, evidence syntheses did not ...
Gill Thomson +18 more
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Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Background: Forming a habit - i.e., a cue-behaviour association learned through repeated performance - has been proposed to promote behaviour maintenance, but some commentators have questioned whether simple cue-behaviour associations can direct complex ...
Benjamin Gardner
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Assessing trade-offs in avian behaviour using remotely collected data from a webcam.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Individual animals engage in many behaviours which are mutually exclusive, and so where individuals increase the duration of time spent on one type of behavioural activity, this must be offset by a corresponding decrease in at least one other type of ...
Kevin A Wood, Rebecca Lacey, Paul E Rose
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The good behaviour game: Maintenance effects [PDF]
International Journal of Educational Research, 2018 Abstract This study examined the effects of the Good Behaviour Game on teacher and student behaviour in a general education classroom. Using a multiple baseline design across classes, baseline rates of disruptive behaviours were collected in each class and the class was divided into two teams.
Donna Lynch, Mickey Keenan
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Extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Explain Energy Saving Behaviour
Environmental and Climate Technologies, 2020 Existing research in environmental psychology suggests that humans are conscious of the impact that their actions have on the environment. However, a corresponding change is yet to be seen in the voluntary adoption of pro-environmental behaviour by the ...
Arya Bhavana, Chaturvedi Shiromi
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Behavioural issues in maintenance of university buildings [PDF]
Journal of Retail & Leisure Property, 2011 University buildings require maintenance to create a suitable environment that supports and stimulates learning, teaching and innovation. This article is concerned with identifying, evaluating and categorizing the criteria of the university building users' value systems.
Olanrewaju Ashola Abdul Lateef +2 more
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