Habitual agency

Embodied Agency and Habitual Selves

Management of Habitual Catarrah

a whole month ; some are never free from it even for a week, while in a few rare instances, this cold does not leave the patients even for 3 or 4 days. An apparently slight illness of "cold" is in reality a great suffering for such persons, and is entitled to our serious consideration. Moreover, these men's history shows that they have already consulted various physicians, and with little or no...

The habitual consumer

Consumers sometimes act like creatures of habit, automatically repeating past behavior with little regard to current goals and valued outcomes. To explain this phenomenon, we show that habits are a specific form of automaticity in which responses are directly cued by the contexts (e.g., locations, preceding actions) that consistently covaried with past performance. Habits are prepotent response...

Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...

Habitual prospective memory in schizophrenia

BACKGROUND Prospective memory (PM), the act of remembering that something has to be done in the future without any explicit prompting to recall, provides a useful framework with which to examine problems in internal-source monitoring. This is because it requires distinguishing between two internally-generated processes, namely the intention to perform an action versus actual performance of the ...