🧠The concept of habit means different things in psychology, neuroscience, economics, and marketing
💡Want to learn more about how we can bring these views together to understand consumer choices?
📅 Join us next Monday for the final EHPS Habit SIG event of 2025, featuring @cfcamerer.bsky.social
🚀 We're hiring !
🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e
🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.
🌱Don’t miss out on the Habit highlights at the EHPS conference in Groningen!🌱
From habit decay strategies and AI-driven interventions to fresh insights into measurement and automatic influences on behaviour, this year’s program features inspiring research and networking opportunities.
New preprint! Habits should get stronger with more practice, right? Well, this crucial result has been difficult to reproduce in human labs. In an instant classic, de Wit (2018) showed 5 failures in obtaining more evidence of habits in conditions with more training -as compared to little trained
The good news? If there’s more than one mechanism driving compulsive behaviour, there’s likely more than one way to intervene! We talk about this in our @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social review @eikekofi.bsky.social @parnianrafei.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨
Why do some people get stuck doing things that no longer make sense, or are even harmful? Our new study shows compulsivity isn’t just about weakened goal-directed control; people high in compulsivity also form stronger habits
📄: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#PaperFairy #Habits #CogSci
In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Many variables determine whether instrumental behaviour is goal-directed or habitual. We have documented in rats that delays between response and outcome attenuate sensitivity to outcome devaluation (a canonical test of goal directedness). In this study we replicated that observation in humans.
The title page of Buabang, Donegan, Rafei, & Gillan (2025) Trends in Cognitive Sciences article, "Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits" DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.00
The title page of the Gardner, Rebar, de Wit, & Lally (2024) Social and Personality Psychology Compass article, titled "What is habit and how can it be used to change real-word behavior? Narrowing the theory-reality gap." https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12975
If you're interested in #habits, check out these two papers by @eikekofi.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/mu96jzdd) & @drbengardner.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/3nd4bx5p). I reread them recently & highly recommend them. Each presents a model & uses it to suggest ways to form/break habits in real-world settings.
