OBJECTIVES Within health psychology, habit - the tendency to enact action automatically as a learned response to contextual cues - is most commonly quantified using the 'Self-Report Habit Index', which assesses behavioural automaticity, or measures combining self-reported behaviour frequency and context stability. Yet, the use of self-report to capture habit has proven controversial. This study...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION No reports have been published on the association between dietary intake habits and nocturia in the diabetes population. We therefore evaluated this issue among Japanese patients with diabetes mellitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study participants in the present study were 785 Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Self-administered questionnaires were used to assess e...

Extended training can induce a shift in behavioral control from goal-directed actions, which are governed by action-outcome contingencies and sensitive to changes in the expected value of the outcome, to habits which are less dependent on action-outcome relations and insensitive to changes in outcome value. Previous studies in rats have shown that interval schedules of reinforcement favor habit...

It is conventional to speak of voting as ‘‘habitual.’’ But what does this mean? In psychology, habits are cognitive associations between repeated responses and stable features of the performance context. Thus, ‘‘turnout habit’’ is best measured by an index of repeated behavior and a consistent performance setting. Once habit associations form, the response can be cued even in the absence of sup...

In a previous paper (1928) the senior author stated that addiction to purified alkaloids of opium was a rare occurrence in India. In western countries morphine and of late years codeine and heroin also have been extensivelyused. In view of the fact that habitual use of alkaloids, such as cocaine, is being gradually introduced into India from these countries and from the Far East, the Drug Addic...

BACKGROUND Despite strong support for predictive validity of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) substantial variance in both intention and behavior is unaccounted for by the model's predictors. The present study tested the extent to which habit strength augments the predictive validity of the TPB in relation to a currently under-researched behavior that has important health implications, name...

Wepropose a utility-theoretic brand-choice model that accounts for four different sources of state dependence: 1. effects of lagged choices (structural state dependence), 2. effects of serially correlated error terms in the random utility function (habit persistence type 1), 3. effects of serial correlations between utility-maximizing alternatives on successive purchase occasions of a household...