The automatic component of habit in health behavior: Habit as cue-contingent automaticity

Health Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 374-383

  Orbell, Sheina ^a   Verplanken, Bas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habit; Implementation intentions; Self report habit index; Smoking; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL FLOSS; FEMALE; HABIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SMOKING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; BEHAVIOR; DENTAL DEVICE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; CUES; DENTAL DEVICES, HOME CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOALS; HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTENTION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955334314     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019596     Document Type: Article

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