Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior
[full text read at source, in sections] Mazar, A., & Wood, W. (2022). 'Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior.' Psychological Science, 33(4), 563-578. doi:10.1177/09567976211045345. two things. FIRST, the restatement of the figure, in the opening paragraph, verbatim: 'In an experience-sampling study, 43% of daily behaviors were performed habitually, in that they were repeated frequently in the same location and typically while participants were thinking about something other than what they were doing (Wood et al., 2002).' Held against the 2002 paper's own definition, which is routineness and place alone, and against its Study 2 result, in which habitual behaviours drew non-corresponding thoughts 51 per cent of the time against 44 corresponding, this sentence attaches a criterion the original did not apply and a 'typically' to a near-even split. This is the clearest available demonstration that the drift begins at the source rather than three retellings downstream, and it is a point about sentences and never about anyone's conduct. SECOND, the paper's own finding, from the abstract: 'We tested this misattribution hypothesis in an online experiment of helping behavior (N = 809 adults) as well as in an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study of U.S. college
[full text read at source, in sections] Mazar, A., & Wood, W. (2022). 'Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior.' Psychological Science, 33(4), 563-578. doi:10.1177/09567976211045345. two things. FIRST, the restatement of the figure, in the opening paragraph, verbatim: 'In an experience-sampling study, 43% of daily behaviors were performed habitually, in that they were repeated frequently in the same location and typically while participants were thinking about something other than what they were doing (Wood et al., 2002).' Held against the 2002 paper's own definition, which is routineness and place alone, and against its Study 2 result, in which habitual behaviours drew non-corresponding thoughts 51 per cent of the time against 44 corresponding, this sentence attaches a criterion the original did not apply and a 'typically' to a near-even split. This is the clearest available demonstration that the drift begins at the source rather than three retellings downstream, and it is a point about sentences and never about anyone's conduct. SECOND, the paper's own finding, from the abstract: 'We tested this misattribution hypothesis in an online experiment of helping behavior (N = 809 adults) as well as in an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study of U.S. college
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Mazar, A., & Wood, W. (2022). Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior. Psychological Science, 33(4), 563-578.