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Can’t Control Yourself? Monitor Those Bad Habits

Quinn, Jeffrey M., Pascoe, Anthony, Wood, Wendy, Neal, David T.·2010·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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What strategies can people use to control unwanted habits? Past work has focused on controlling other kinds of automatic impulses, especially temptations. The nature of habit cuing calls for certain self-control strategies. Because the slow-to-change memory trace of habits is not amenable to change or reinterpretation, successful habit control involves inhibiting the unwanted response when activated in memory. In support, two episode-sampling diary studies demonstrated that bad habits, unlike responses to temptations, were controlled most effectively through spontaneous use of vigilant monitoring (thinking “don’t do it,” watching carefully for slipups). No other strategy was useful in controlling strong habits, despite that stimulus control was effective at inhibiting responses to temptations. A subsequent experiment showed that vigilant monitoring aids habit control, not by changing the strength of the habit memory trace but by heightening inhibitory, cognitive control processes. The implications of these findings for behavior change interventions are discussed.

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Authors: Quinn, J. M., Pascoe, A., Wood, W., & Neal, D. T.
Affiliations: Duke University (US)
University of Southern California (US)
Corresponding author: Wood, Wendy
ORCID: Wood, Wendy
Venue: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-04
Volume: 36
Issue: 4
Pages: 499-511
ISSN: 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209360665
OpenAlex: W2141462329
Cited by: 256
References: 54
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 66 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 15.44
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
Keywords: habit control, self-control, cognitive control, inhibitory control, stimulus control, temptation, automatism, behaviour change interventions, diary study
MeSH terms: Female, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Male, North Carolina, Records, Self Efficacy, Behavior Control

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