Category: Automaticity

Fuerza de voluntad contra tentaciones no saludables – Alerta spoiler – la fuerza de voluntad pierde casi siempre.

Posted Dominika KwasnickaPosted in Automaticity, Habit

Por Amanda Rebar, Central Queensland University, Australia No será sorprendente que la evidencia muestre que las personas no siempre se comportan de la mejor manera para su salud a largo plazo. Por ejemplo, la mayoría de la gente es consciente de que el ejercicio es bueno para su salud física y mental, pero comparativamente cada […]

Getting into the habit: Applying the science of habit-formation to the real-world

Posted Dominika KwasnickaLeave a commentPosted in Automaticity, Habit

By Benjamin Gardner, King’s College London What is a ‘habit’? Why do we eat popcorn while watching movies? The answer, for most, is that eating popcorn is a habitual response to watching movies. Psychologists define ‘habitual’ behaviours as actions that happen automatically, due to learned associations between situations (the movie theatre) and our responses to […]