Psychology of habit

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 289-314

  Wood, Wendy ^a   Rünger, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Behavior change; Dual process models; Goals; Model free learning

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; HABIT; HUMAN; MOTIVATION;

CUES; GOALS; HABITS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION;

EID: 84953739987     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033417     Document Type: Article

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