• DOI:10.1037//0022-3514.83.6.1281
Corpus ID: 15698912

Habits in everyday life: thought, emotion, and action.

@article{Wood2002HabitsIE,
  title={Habits in everyday life: thought, emotion, and action.},
  author={W. Wood and Jeffrey M. Quinn and D. Kashy},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2002},
  volume={83 6},
  pages={
          1281-97
        }
}

• W. Wood, Jeffrey M. Quinn, D. Kashy
• Published 2002
• Medicine
• Journal of personality and social psychology

To illustrate the differing thoughts and emotions involved in guiding habitual and nonhabitual behavior, 2 diary studies were conducted in which participants provided hourly reports of their ongoing experiences. When participants were engaged in habitual behavior, defined as behavior that had been performed almost daily in stable contexts, they were likely to think about issues unrelated to their behavior, presumably because they did not have to consciously guide their actions. When engaged in… Expand