Habit and Intention in Everyday Life: The Multiple Processes by Which Past Behavior Predicts Future Behavior
In Wood's account, her review with Ouellette covered 64 studies with more than five thousand participants and compared stated intentions with later behaviour. For one-off behaviours such as enrolling in a class, intentions predicted behaviour; for frequently repeated behaviours intentions mattered little and past behaviour carried through. Wood notes that this work did not explain what makes people persist.
In Wood's account, her review with Ouellette covered 64 studies with more than five thousand participants and compared stated intentions with later behaviour. For one-off behaviours such as enrolling in a class, intentions predicted behaviour; for frequently repeated behaviours intentions mattered little and past behaviour carried through. Wood notes that this work did not explain what makes people persist.
Written from the secondary report: Wendy Wood, Good Habits Bad Habits (2019), read in full in the vault; the paper's own text was not re-read for this article.
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Ouellette, J. A., & Wood, W. (1998). Habit and Intention in Everyday Life: The Multiple Processes by Which Past Behavior Predicts Future Behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 124(1), 54-74.