HABIT AND PROGRESS

Crystal Habit Modification Using Habit Modifiers

Habit and Heritage

Choice, Habit and Evolution

Several leading mainstream economists including Gary Becker have treated habit as serially correlated behaviour resulting from deliberate choices. This approach puts choice before habit but involves assumptions of extensive memory and decision-making capacity. By contrast, earlier authors such as William James, John Dewey and Thorstein Veblen saw deliberation and choice as a contingent outcome ...

Habit formation

Habits, both good ones and bad ones, are pervasive in animal behavior. Important frameworks have been developed to understand habits through psychological and neurobiological studies. This work has given us a rich understanding of brain networks that promote habits, and has also helped us to understand what constitutes a habitual behavior as opposed to a behavior that is more flexible and prosp...

Habit Learning and Psychiatric Disorders

Last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Ron Kessler and his colleagues published some of the findings from the recent National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) study concerning the epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder. The NCS-R is a nationally representative study of 9,090 people aged 18 and older. The results of this article were picked up by all of the major...