'Habit Forming' – Evidence of Physician Habit in Medical Negligence Litigation

Why Is Voting Habit-Forming?∗

Recent studies point to two likely explanations for habitual voting. The first is that voting causes psychological changes that make individuals more likely to view themselves as “voters.” The other asserts that voting eases institutional barriers, making future voting less costly. These mechanisms lead to divergent expectations about when and where we should observe habitual voting that are us...

Crystal Habit Modification Using Habit Modifiers

Partial nail avulsion: habit or evidence based?

Onychocryptosis is a relatively common condition that can cause significant pain and discomfort. Partial nail avulsion (PNA) with phenolisation is a straightforward procedure performed by podiatrists on a daily basis. The procedure has shown a high rate of efficacy and low recurrence rate, and can be performed on high risk patients with close post-operative monitoring and those with concomitant...

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...

Is Voting Habit Forming? New Evidence from Experiments and Regression Discontinuities

Field experiments and regression discontinuity designs test whether voting is habit forming by examining whether a random shock to turnout in one election affects participation in subsequent elections. We contribute to this literature by offering a vast amount of new statistical evidence on the long-term consequences of random and quasi-random inducements to vote. The behavior of millions of vo...