Psychology of Habit
The standard scholarly review of habit: formed by repetition in stable contexts, cued by environment rather than intention, and — crucially for us — most successfully changed by deliberate, effortful strategies that work through cognitive control, not around it. The defensible version of “habits can’t be reasoned with” is here: changed intentions shift sporadic behaviours but fail against habitual ones, so change the context, not just the mind.
Underpins the corrected habit account in our Synthesis, alongside Graybiel.
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