habit
Let an agent explain habits and how they form and change according to research, support building and breaking habits at a general level, distinguish habits from customs and addictions, and route clinical concerns to professionals.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain habits and how they form and change according to research, support building and breaking habits at a general level, distinguish habits from customs and addictions, and route clinical concerns to professionals.
A regularly repeated pattern of behaviour acquired through repetition and performed largely automatically, such as food, reading, listening and feeding habits, daily routines and habits regarded as good or bad, as well as customary practices of communities such as manners and customs of a religious tradition; habits are studied in psychology and neuroscience as learned cue-response patterns and are the target of habit formation and change in health, productivity and behaviour change.
What it is for: Automatic repeated patterns of behaviour.
It can be explain formation and change; support habit building; distinguish related concepts; route clinical concerns.
Distinguishing features
Automaticity
Cue-triggered
Learned through repetition
Changeable
What it looks like
Not physical; recurring behaviours.
How it is recognised
Repeated behaviour performed automatically
Cue, routine, reward
A custom is shared socially; an addiction involves compulsion and harm
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - shared customs
is related to - skill acquisition by repetition
is related to - stress and habit change
In practice
Families and kinds
health habits such as food and exercise habits
daily and productivity habits
media habits such as reading and listening
habits judged good or bad
community customs and manners
Standards and regulation
Behaviour change guidance from health bodies
Research standards in psychology
No regulation of the concept
Failure modes and hazards
Overstating habit formation claims
Confusing habits with addictions needing clinical care
Moralising about habits
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.habit-artifact
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What habits are.
Psychology.
Concept
Concept and mechanism.
Concept
Concept.
- What is a habit, and how do cues, routines, rewards and repetition form habits, according to research? definition
- Is a personal habit, a custom or a possible addiction meant? boundary
Neuroscience
Brain basis.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience.
- How do brain systems support habit learning and automaticity? provenance
- Which entry fits learning? action
Change Building and breaking habits.
Practice.
Build
Building habits.
Build
Building.
- What strategies does research support for building habits such as exercise or reading? action
- Which entry fits behaviour change? action
Break
Breaking habits.
Break
Breaking.
- How can unwanted habits be changed, and when does a pattern need clinical help? action
- Is a possible addiction or compulsion present, needing a professional? boundary
Society Customs and culture.
Attribution.
Customs
Customs and manners.
Customs
Customs.
- How do communal customs and manners, such as those of a religious tradition, differ from personal habits, in the terms of those communities? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed? boundary
Media
Media and consumption habits.
Media
Media.
- What does research say about reading, listening and food habits and how they change? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Learn History and teaching.
Education.
History
History of the concept.
History
History.
- How have philosophers and psychologists from Aristotle to James and modern researchers understood habit? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can habit science be taught in health and education? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should habit formation be a separate entry?
- How should behaviour change resources be linked?
- How should customs be separated?