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How does habit form? Guidelines for tracking real-world habit formation

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2022
Advances in understanding how habit forms can help people change their behaviour in ways that make them happier and healthier. Making behaviour habitual, such that people automatically act in associated contexts due to learned context-response ...
, Benjamin Gardner, Amanda Rebar
exaly   +2 more sources

Rethinking Habit and Habit Cultivation

open access: yesContemporary Social Sciences, 2020
Habit is on the wane in the discourse of education theory, although it still maintains great vitality in everyday discourse. It is fair to say that habit as a concept has been distorted by behaviorism.
Gao Desheng
doaj   +1 more source

Age differences in routine formation: the role of automatization, motivation, and executive functions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Medication adherence can be vital for one’s health, especially in older adults. However, previous research has demonstrated that medication adherence is negatively affected by age-related cognitive decline.
Irene van de Vijver   +6 more
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Habits [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2017
What is a habit? One problem with the concept of habit has been that virtually everyone has their own ideas of what is meant by such a term. Whilst not eschewing folk psychology, it is useful to re-examine dictionary definitions of 'habit'. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines habit as "a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that
T W, Robbins, Rui M, Costa
openaire   +2 more sources

It’s snowing? Keep on rolling! Individual determinants of winter cycling in Québec

open access: yesActive Travel Studies, 2023
Bicycle commuting during the winter is an increasingly popular practice in Québec, Canada, that is associated with benefits for public and environmental health. Constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior and habit are associated with modes of transport
Celia Kingsbury   +5 more
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High on habits [PDF]

open access: yesfrontiers in Neuroscience, 2008
The neural circuits involved in learning and executing goal-directed actions, which are governed by action-outcome contingencies and sensitive to changes in the expected value of the outcome, have been shown to be different from those mediating habits, which are less dependent on action-outcome relations and changes in outcome value. Extended training,
Hilário, Monica R. F., Costa, Rui M.
openaire   +3 more sources

Investigating the Affecting Factors on Mobile Games Purchase Intention: An Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM) [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2018
As a proper example of cultural technologies, digital games have been under a vast range of studies. In addition, the daily growth in the market and production of games have turned them into a huge industry.
H. Nasiri   +2 more
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IDC theory: habit and the habit loop [PDF]

open access: yesResearch and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2020
AbstractInterest-driven creator (IDC) theory is a design theory that intends to inform the design of future education in Asia. It consists of three anchored concepts, namely, interest, creation, and habit. This paper presents the third anchored concept habit as well as the habit loop.
Wenli Chen   +11 more
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The SEEKING Drive and Its Fixation: A Neuro-Psycho-Evolutionary Approach to the Pathology of Addiction

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
Neuro-ethological studies conducted by Panksepp and his colleagues have provided an understanding of how the activity of the mesolimbic dopaminergic (ML DA) system leads to the emotional disposition to SEEK/Explore, which is involved in all appetitive ...
Antonio Alcaro   +2 more
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General anxiety, dental anxiety, digit sucking, caries and oral hygiene status of children resident in a semi-urban population in Nigeria

open access: yesBMC Oral Health, 2018
Background Digit sucking can represent untreated anxiety or other emotional problems. The aim of this study was to determine if digit sucking is a predictor of general anxiety and dental anxiety; and if general and dental anxiety are associated with ...
Morenike O. Folayan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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