Psychology of Habit
Summary
Psychologists Wendy Wood and Dennis Rünger review habit research. “As the proverbial creatures of habit, people tend to repeat the same behaviors in recurring contexts.” Habits grow out of pursuing goals, become “the efficient, default mode of response”, and then mislead us: we “infer from the frequency of habit performance that the behavior must have been intended”.
Rationale
Habit is our working analogy for deep dispositions, and this review adds a twist: people mistake their habits for intentions, one way such patterns stay out of sight.
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