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Habit and intention in everyday life: The multiple processes by which past behavior predicts future behavior.
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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“Well-practiced behaviors easily become automated wherein conscious intentions are no longer a prerequisite to perform an act (Ouellette & Wood, 1998).”
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“A series of similar former responses might form habitual actions [60].”
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“Ouellette and Wood (1998) showed in a meta-analysis that behavior that was previously performed in stable (vs. unstable) contexts was considerably less guided by intention.”
From Context Stability in Habit Building Increases Automaticity and Goal Attainment (2022) · cites this paper as Ouellette and Wood, 1998
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“As Ouellette and Wood (1998) famously showed, intention is a stronger predictor for future behavior if the behavior was performed seldomly and in varying contexts in the past”
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“On the other hand, people tend to behave consistently with previous decisions in a wide variety of contexts (see Ouellette and Wood 1998 for a review).”
From On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions (2023) · cites this paper as Ouellette and Wood 1998
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“a multiplicative combination of performance frequency ('how often do you do behavior X?') and cue stability ('when you do behavior X, how often is cue Y present?') appears to offer a useful habit index, but depends upon prior identification of relevant cues [25,26].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ouellette, J. A., & Wood, W.
- Affiliations
- SUNY Cortland (US)
- Texas A&M University (US)
- ORCID
- Wood, Wendy
- 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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