Benjamin Gardner

TL;DR: A narrative review is presented, drawing on a scoping review of 136 empirical studies and 8 literature reviews undertaken to document usage of the term ‘habit’, and methods to measure it, and proposals for improved methods for studying it were derived.

TL;DR: This review aims to provide intervention developers with tools to help establish target behaviours as habits, based on theoretical and empirical insights and focuses on strategies to initiate a new behaviour, support context-dependent repetition of this behaviour, and facilitate the development of automaticity.

TL;DR: Results highlight potential barriers to the uptake of current-generation (2010) plug-in electric cars by mainstream consumers, including the prioritization of personal mobility needs over environmental benefits, concerns over the social desirability of electric vehicle use, and the expectation that rapid technological and infrastructural developments will make current models obsolete.

TL;DR: A four-item automaticity subscale (the ‘Self-Report Behavioural Automaticity Index’; ‘SRBAI’) was found to be reliable and sensitive to two hypothesised effects of habit on behaviour: a habit-behaviour correlation, and a moderating effect of habits on the intention-Behaviour relationship.

TL;DR: Evidence around mean habit strength, habit–behaviour correlations, and habit × intention interactions, from applications of the SRHI to dietary, physical activity, and active travel behaviour is reviewed.