Habits.
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Peer-reviewed
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Authors
Robbins, TW
Costa, Rui M
Abstract
What is a habit? One problem with the concept of habit has been that virtually everyone has their own ideas of what is meant by such a term. Whilst not eschewing folk psychology, it is useful to re-examine dictionary definitions of 'habit'. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines habit as "a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up" and also "an automatic reaction to a specific situation". The latter, reassuringly, is not too far from what has come to be known as stimulus-response theory.
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Habits, Humans
Journal Title
Curr Biol
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0960-9822
1879-0445
1879-0445
Volume Title
27
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Elsevier BV