This study tested the idea of habits as a form of goal-directed automatic behavior. Expanding
on the idea that habits are mentally represented as associations between goals and actions…

People often act in order to realize desired outcomes, or goals. Although behavioral science
recognizes that people can skillfully pursue goals without consciously attending to their …

Six studies examined the goal contagion hypothesis, which claims that individuals may
automatically adopt and pursue a goal that is implied by another person's behavior. Participants …

This paper summarizes research on determinants of repeated behaviors, and the decision
processes underlying them. The present research focuses on travel mode choices as an …

The mere activation of the idea of a behavioral act moves the human body without the person
consciously deciding to take action. In an experiment, we showed that people subliminally …

On the basis of the idea that situational norms are mentally represented as associations
between environments and normative behavior, it was proposed that an environment can …

In this article, literature from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and social cognition is
integrated to discuss the relation between goals, attention, and consciousness. Goals are the …

In this review an overview is given on antibiotic resistance (AR) mechanisms with special
attentions to the AR genes described so far preceded by a short introduction on the discovery …

Three studies examined the role of habit on information acquisition concerning travel mode
choices. On the basis of Triandis' (1980) model of attitude–behaviour relations it was …

Habit is often treated as a construct of marginal interest in the literature on attitude–behaviour
relations. We argue that this is undeserved, particularly given the current interest in …