David T. Neal

TL;DR: The present model outlines the mechanisms underlying habitual control of responding and the ways in which habits interface with goals, and the implications of the model for habit change, especially for the self-regulation of habit cuing.

TL;DR: This paper found that much of everyday action is characterized by habitual repetition and that direct cuing and motivated contexts best account for the characteristic features of habit responding, in particular for the rigid repetition of action that can be initiated without intention and that runs to completion with minimal conscious control.

TL;DR: The authors show that habits are a specific form of automaticity in which responses are directly cued by the contexts (e.g., locations, preceding actions) that consistently covaried with past performance.

TL;DR: This article found that strong habits are influenced by context cues associated with past performance but are relatively unaffected by current goals, while habits of moderate strength are automatically influenced by goals, yielding a curvilinear, U-shaped relation between habit strength and actual goal influence.

TL;DR: How habits resist conflicting motives and provide insight into promising mechanisms of habit change are revealed.