Do habits always override intentions? Pitting unhealthy snacking habits against snack-avoidance intentions
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Do habits always override intentions? Pitting unhealthy snacking habits against snack-avoidance intentions
BACKGROUND Habit is defined as a process whereby an impulse towards behaviour is automatically initiated upon encountering a setting in which the behaviour has been performed in the past. A central tenet of habit theory is that habit overrides intentional tendencies in directing behaviour, such that as habit strength increases, intention becomes less predictive of behaviour. Yet, evidence of th...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2050-7283
DOI: 10.1186/s40359-015-0065-4