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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Habit-Formation"”.
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Investigating Interventions in Fine-grained Contexts for Habit Formation
… change is important, yet hard to sustain. Habits are automatic responses to specific contextual cues, and can help sustain behavior change. Fine-grained specific contexts are commonly used in habit formation, but interventions in automatically-detected fine-grained contexts have rarely been …
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Habit Formation and Political Persuasion: A Behavioral and Statistical Approach
… The initial study investigates the influence of habits on the in-store shopping experience. By leveraging store closures as a disruptive event, we examine how these closures prompt individuals to alter their purchasing patterns. We propose that such disruptions encourage people to engage in more …
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Investigating Maladaptive Habit Formation and Threat Influences in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Maladaptive habit formation is hypothesised to contribute to numerous clinical disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The way in which habits become maladaptive and persist is not fully understood, but the acquisition of both goal-directed and habit-like behaviour can be captured …
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Using Product, Processes and Gamification to Motivate users for Positive Habit Formation
… it has not been easy for millennials to form a habit of carrying out this preventative measure. To test the hypothesis, we first explored drive and expectancy theories, concluding with the understanding that users take actions to solve their needs. User behavior is driven by internal and …
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Habit Formation in a Rodent Model of Alcoholism: Genetic Susceptibility, Alcohol-Specific Effects, and Pharmacological Manipulation
Habit formation is a well-characterized process involving a shift from response-outcome as the leading driving force underlying action to a stimulus-response mechanistic process. It is hypothesized that a transition from goal-directed behavior to habitual behavior is driven by a transition of the …
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Handwashing behavior and habit formation in the household: evidence from the pilot randomized evaluation of HOPE SOAP© in South Africa
… change programs often fail to recognize the habitual drivers of handwashing behavior. In contrast, this paper examines the effectiveness of a novel soap technology, HOPE SOAP©, a child-size and colorful bar of soap with a toy embedded in its center, which aims to increase handwashing in …
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A computational model of cortical-striatal mediation of speed-accuracy tradeoff and habit formation emerging from anatomical gradients in dopamine physiology and reinforcement learning
… the model to speed-accuracy tradeoffs and habit formation by simulating forced-choice paradigms. Several robust behavioral phenomena are replicated. By isolating reinforcement learning factors that control the speed and depth of habit formation, the model can help explain why all substances …
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Understanding market demand for agricultural products through consumer research: the coffee example
… estimated and used to examine the influence of habit formation and advertising in the period 1957-80. This work challenges both the assumption of symmetrical consumer response and the statistical source for measuring coffee consumption. The model allows for asymmetrical consumer reactions. …
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HIERARCHICAL PREFERENCES AND CONSUMER CHOICE.
… theory to develop a dynamic model which includes habit formation. Particular emphasis is placed in Chapter 2 upon the psychological underpinnings of consumption activities and the allocation of time aspect of these activities. It is assumed that a consumption activity is defined as a production …
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A Dynamic Welfare Analysis of Price Stabilization Policies in the Korean Rice Market
… which come from factor fixity in supply and habit formation in demand.
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The Deconstruction of Reinforcement Learning in Human Substance Use Disorder
… regulatory systems: the goal-directed and the habit system. Recently, trial-by-trial computational modelling lends itself as a promising tool to deconstruct latent cognitive processes that underpin learning, which can provide mechanistic insights into these impairments. Thus, with multiple …
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A Qualitative Study on Long-Term Adherence to Home Exercise Programs in People with Parkinson’s Disease
… to the establishment of exercise integrated habits in People with Parkinson’s Disease (PwPD). This study found that long-term adherence was achieved by participants. The themes related to adherence that emerged from the data include promoting participation in everyday activities, utilizing …
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Design as Preventative Medicine: Leveraging the Built Environment to Care for Health
… factors, the built environment’s key role in habit formation offers a powerful avenue for population-level intervention. This thesis argues that spatial design must serve as preventative medicine, utilizing urban infrastructure to naturally facilitate daily movement as a core public health …
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? An Examination of Factors Influencing Environmental Behavior in Denver, Colorado
… behavior literature. The results show that habit strength as quantified by the Self-Reported Habit Index has the strongest correlation with both recycling and composting behavior. Overall, waste management policy should focus on influencing habit formation, using literature to dissuade …
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Habit Modification in Consumption: Theory and Evidence
Since Brown (1952), habit formation models of consumption have assumed that utility is additively separable in durables and non-durables, and memory loss is a unidimensional process. This thesis dispenses with these assumptions to extend the theory of habit formation and introduce habit …
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No Pressure!: Designing Mobile Interventions to Improve Pressure Relief Adherence for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury through Diary Studies
… individuals with SCI. To this end, literature on habit formation and adherence apps was studied to inform the design of a prototypical pressure relief notification system, which was tested with individuals with SCI. A 10-day diary study was conducted to capture their experiences in real-time, …
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The Development and Testing Of A Tailored Habit based Dietary Intervention Coupled With Oral Rehabilitation On The Nutritional Status Of Older Patients
… and is novel to this population is that of habit-formation. <br/><br/>Aim <br/>The aim of this research is to develop and test a habit-based tailored dietary intervention, in conjunction with oral rehabilitation, and to examine its impact on positive dietary habit-formation amongst partially …
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Impact of Social Media on Prosocial Offline Outcomes
… improved individual user engagement as well as habit formation, a sense of progress, and a feeling of community among content consumers.
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Gamification for a healthier lifestyle – user adherence
… was mostly used by teenagers and children in the Habit Formation category of BCT, which helped them to stay engaged for longer.
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A role for Dopamine neuron NMDA receptors in learning and decision-making
… in locomotion, motivation, associative learning, habit formation, action selection and cognition. The many functions of dopamine can be attributed to the multiple projection targets of midbrain dopaminergic nuclei and to the multiple characteristic modes of dopamine neuron firing, tonic and …
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