Tag: #automatic behavior

2 essays

August 28, 2013

Preface to “Change! – Use habits to effortless improve your life.” (Version 0.1)

I am writing a book (together with Behavioral Change Specialist Judith Martens from behavior-change.net) about how to change effortless, using habits to shape your behaviour without the need of (an enourmous amount of) motivation. I was writing some chapters, when I realized that I needed to see the preface to really set my focus on […]

January 31, 2008

Learn to like – Implementation Intention & Affect

1. Short Summary of the research proposal This study investigates the role of affect in consciously created automatic behaviour tendencies (implementation intentions). The general hypothesis is that the frequency of a behaviour is closely connected to the activation of a specific behaviour tendency, but this model often fails when implementation intentions are used to change […]