A review and analysis of the use of ‘habit’ in understanding, predicting and influencing health-related behaviour

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Boosting Domestic Energy Efficiency Through Accurate Consumption Data Collection

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Individual and situational determinants of plastic waste sorting: an experience sampling method study protocol

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A Habit Strength-Based Explanation for Auditors' Use of Simple Cognitive Processes for Complex Tasks

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Individual Determinants of Rest-Break Behavior in Occupational Settings

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Increased Habit Frequency in the Daily Lives of Patients with Acute Anorexia Nervosa

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What is the Role of Active Mobility Habits in the Relationship between Self-Determination and Modal Shift Intentions? A Mediation Analysis

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Measuring context–response associations that drive habits

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Sleep safe in clean hands: Improving hand hygiene compliance in the operating room through education and increased access to hand hygiene products

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A pragmatic behavior-based habit index for adherence to nebulized treatments among adults with cystic fibrosis

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Obtaining Semi-Formal Models from Qualitative Data: From Interviews Into BPMN Models in User-Centered Design Processes

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The CKD‐DETECT study: An RCT aimed at improving intention to initiate a kidney health check in Australian practice nurses

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Accounting for automatic processes in sleep health

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Media habits and their impact on media platform selection for information use

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Associations between Motivation, Attitudes, and Habit Strength in Physical Activity Behaviour

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Experiences of successful physical activity maintenance among adults with type 2 diabetes: a theory-based qualitative study

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The role of impulsiveness and habit strength in reducing food waste

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Feasibility and acceptability of a personalised script-elicitation method for improving evening sleep hygiene habits

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Predicting Adolescents’ Physical Activity Intentions: Testing an Integrated Social Cognition Model

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App-based meditation habits maintain reductions in depression symptoms among autistic adults

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Menopause as a window of opportunity: the benefits of designing more effective theory-driven behaviour change interventions to promote healthier lifestyle choices at midlife

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Is information evaluated subjectively? Social media has changed the way users search for medical information

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Can—and should—automaticity be self‐reported using a single item? A secondary analysis of 16 datasets

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HabitWalk: A micro‐randomized trial to understand and promote habit formation in physical activity

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Feasibility of a Habit Formation Intervention to Delay Frailty Progression Among Older African Americans: A Pilot Study

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A Dual-Process Model Applied to Two Health-Promoting Nutrition Behaviours

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Practical parsimony and complexity in conceptualising habit

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Connectionism and Behavioral Clusters: Differential Patterns in Predicting Expectations to Engage in Health Behaviors

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Critical and Qualitative Approaches to Behavior Change

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Human Factors Evaluation of an Ambient Display for Real-Time Posture Feedback to Sedentary Workers

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Does alcohol-related desire thinking predict in-the-moment drinking behaviours?

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Investigating the role of self‐control beliefs in predicting exercise behaviour: A longitudinal study

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Maximizing User Engagement with Behavior Change Interventions

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The relationship between exercise intention and behavior of Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model

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Experiences of facilitators and barriers for fulfilment of human needs when living with restless legs syndrome: a qualitative study

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Social media use is predictable from app sequences: Using LSTM and transformer neural networks to model habitual behavior

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Beyond deliberate self-control: Habits automatically achieve long-term goals

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Bidirectional associations between affect and food craving within and between individuals: A mega-analysis

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Understanding the Willingness of Students to Use Bicycles for Sustainable Commuting in a University Setting: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

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Is cybersecurity research missing a trick? Integrating insights from the psychology of habit into research and practice

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Are action planning and physical activity mediators of the intention-habit relationship?

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Twenty‐Four Hour Activity and Sleep Profiles for Adults Living with Arthritis: Habits Matter

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A Conceptual Model of Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance: The Importance of Cognitive, Empirical and Computational Approaches

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Facilitating Exercise Habit Formation among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

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An Ecological Investigation of Barriers and Facilitators Impacting Standing Desk Use in Real Working Conditions: A Qualitative Study

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Behavioural change box? Applying the COM-B model to understand behavioural triggers that support consumption of fruits and vegetable among subscribers of a fruit and vegetable box scheme

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An app with brief behavioural support to promote physical activity after a cancer diagnosis (APPROACH): study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial

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Habits and the socioeconomic patterning of health-related behaviour: a pragmatist perspective

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The theory of planned behavior and alcohol protective behavioral strategies: a prospective study examining the role of habit and gender invariance

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“I see it very much as an end-of-life food” – Barriers to oral nutritional supplement adherence, views from healthy older adults

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Effects of calorie labelling and contextual factors on hypothetical coffee shop menu choices

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Predicting Perceived Problems in Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Recalls: A Quantitative Think-Aloud Study Comparing Automated Self-Assisted 24-Hour Dietary Assessment Tool (ASA24®) and INTAKE24© in University Students

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Evaluating Objective Metrics of habit strength for taking medications

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Habit strength as a moderator of the association between symptoms of poor mental health and unintentional non-adherence to oral hypoglycemic medication in adults with type 2 diabetes

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Pollard on Habits of Action

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The Science of Behavior Change: The Road Ahead

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The impact of past behaviour on social cognitive factors and sports participation in university students

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Social‐cognitive predictors of parental supervised toothbrushing: An application of the health action process approach

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What we repeatedly do: Evaluating the determinants and consequences of habit enactment during daily goal‐pursuit

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Development of Goal Management Training+ for Methamphetamine Use Disorder Through Collaborative Design

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The relationship between past exercise behavior and future exercise adherence: A sequential mediation analysis

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The Pragmatist Reappraisal of Habit in Contemporary Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory: Introductory Essay

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Temporal stability of behavior, temporal cue-behavior associations, and physical activity habit strength among mothers with school-aged children

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Madness of the crowd: Understanding mass behaviors through a multidisciplinary lens

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Dyadic reciprocal associations between self‐efficacy and planning predict sedentary behaviour

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Assessing groundwater vulnerability to contamination using the SINTACS model and GIS: a case study at Akoon, Tarkwa-Ghana

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From motivation to mediterranean diet intention and behavior: a combined self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior approach

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Effect on consumers’ sustainable purchase intention of dietary supplement purine labeling

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Predicting habits of vegetable parenting practices to facilitate the design of change programmes

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Sedentary Behaviour at the Individual Level: Correlates, Theories, and Interventions

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Past behavior as a predictor of eco-driving practices: The case of a sustained intervention in a Mexican transportation company

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Barriers and facilitators of antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence habit formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a qualitative study in Kampala, Uganda

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Do food-related capabilities, opportunities and motivations of adolescents mediate the association between socioeconomic position in adolescence and diet quality in early adulthood?

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THE INHIBITING FACTORS OF GREEN PRODUCT PURCHASING BEHAVIOR: GREEN KNOWLEDGE AS A MODERATING EFFECT

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Development and psychometric evaluation of the Swedish propensity to achieve healthy lifestyle scale in patients with hypertension

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Using the COM-B model of behaviour to understand sitting behaviour in UK office workers

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Prediction of taxi drivers' safe-driving behaviors based on the theory of planned behavior: The role of habit

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¿Cómo funciona el autocontrol? Un análisis de la compra por impulso

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Measuring the strength of voter turnout habits

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A review and analysis of the use of ‘habit’ in understanding, predicting and influencing health-related behaviours. Health Psychol Rev

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A matter of habit: Recognizing the multiple roles of habit in health behaviour

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The relationship between habit and healthcare professional behaviour in clinical practice: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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The relationship between habit and healthcare professional behaviour: a systematic review

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Defining and measuring the habit impulse: response to commentaries

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