Health goal priming as a situated intervention tool: how to benefit from nonconscious motivational routes to health behaviour

Health Psychology Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 408-424

  Papies, Esther K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behaviour change; intervention; nonconscious processes; nudging; priming; self regulation

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUTOREGULATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; HABIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; PROCEDURES; REPETITION PRIMING;

CUES; GOALS; HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTENTION; MOTIVATION; REPETITION PRIMING; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84969591009     PISSN: 17437199     EISSN: 17437202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2016.1183506     Document Type: Article

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