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Habit and intention in everyday life: The multiple processes by which past behavior predicts future behavior.

Ouellette, Judith A., Wood, Wendy·1998·Psychological Bulletin

Abstract

Past behavior guides future responses through 2 processes. Well-practiced behaviors in constant contexts recur because the processing that initiates and controls their performance b comes automatic. Frequency of past behavior then reflects habit strength and has a direct effect on future performance. Alternately, when behaviors are not well learned or when they are performed in unstable or difficult contexts, conscious decision making is likely to be necessary to initiate and carry out the behavior. Under these conditions, past behavior (along with attitudes and subjective norms) may contribute to intentions, and behavior is guided by intentions. These relations between past behavior and future behavior are substantiated in a meta-analytic synthesis of prior research on behavior prediction and in a primary research investigation. In everyday explanations of behavior, habits denote one's customary ways of behaving. Claiming that one performed a behavior because of habit provides an understandable explana-tion for an act that otherwise might seem irrational or even harmful. Habits also are featured in the popular psychology literature in the form of self-help books designed to identify

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Authors
Ouellette, J. A., & Wood, W.
Affiliations
  • SUNY Cortland (US)
  • Texas A&M University (US)
Venue
Psychological Bulletin
Published
1998-07
Volume
124
Issue
1
Pages
54-74
ISSN
  • 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1455
OpenAlex
W1970340312
Cited by
3,480
References
137
Citations by year
2026: 134 · 2025: 133 · 2024: 135 · 2023: 155 · 2022: 153 · 2021: 186 · 2020: 321 · 2019: 160 · 2018: 171 · 2017: 183 · 2016: 151 · 2015: 191 · 2014: 179 · 2013: 156 · 2012: 154
FWCI
45.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Pro-Environmental Behavior and Attitudes
Keywords
habit, intention, behavior prediction, automaticity, habit strength, conscious decision-making, attitudes, subjective norms, self-help, past behavior

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