Table of Contents

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Defining habit in psychology.- Chapter 2: The measurement of habit.- Chapter 3: Understanding the formation of human habits: An analysis of mechanisms of habitual behavior.- Chapter 4: Habit mechanisms and behavioural complexity.- Chapter 5: Physical activity habit: Complexities and controversies.- Chapter 6: Technology habits: Progress, problems, and prospects.- Chapter 7: The strategic effects of state dependent consumer preferences: The roles of habits and variety seeking.- Chapter 6: Habit modification.- Chapter 7: Breaking habits using implementation intentions.- Chapter 8: Cracks in the wall: Habit discontinuities as vehicles for behavior change.- Chapter 9: Modelling habit formation and its determinants.- Chapter 10: Using N-of-1 methods to explore habit formation.- Chapter 11: Creating and breaking habit in healthcare professional behaviours to improve healthcare and health.- Chapter 12: Habits in depression: Understanding and intervention.- Chapter 13: The role of habits in maladaptive behaviour and therapeutic interventions.- Chapter 14: Recovery habits: A habit perspective on recovery from substance use disorder.- Chapter 15: A critical review of habit theory of drug dependence.- Chapter 16: Habits and autism: Restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour and thinking in autism.- Chapter 17: Mind wandering: More than a bad habit.- Chapter 18: The automaticity of habitual behaviors: Inconvenient questions.- Chapter 19: Habit: Prospects and questions.

About the Author

Professor Bas Verplanken graduated and obtained his PhD at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, where he worked as a Research Fellow and Lecturer from 1980-1990. From 1990-1998 he was a Lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Nijmegen. From 1998 to 2006 he was a professor at the University of Tromsø, Norway. In 2006 he joined the University of Bath, where he was Head of Department of Psychology from 2010-2016. His research interests are in attitude-behaviour relations and change, applied in the domains of environmental, health, and consumer psychology. He has developed a special interest in habits. He published on a variety of topics, including risk perception, environmental concern, unhealthy eating, travel mode choice, values, self-esteem, body image, worrying, mindfulness, impulsive buying, behaviour change, and sustainable lifestyles. He served as an associate editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and Psychology and Health.