[tips] Habits and Behavior Modification

[Michael Britt]

I don’t know if you’re following the current interest in “habits” but there is 
a great interest (has been for perhaps 2 years) around habits - especially 
after the books “Habit”, “Nudge”, and “Hooked" came out.

I’ve read Hooked and I’m working on Habit and it seems to me like this is just 
warmed over ideas from behavior modification.  The key idea in these books is 
that our daily behavior (i.e., habits) have been created (shaped) by external 
cues, which lead to routines, which result in rewards.  Here and there these 
authors throw in a little neuroscience and a sprinkling of ideas from cognitive 
psych, but the core ideas are just things we’e known for years from the work of 
behaviorists.  

If you’re not familiar with Habits, here’s the author of the book on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eYrhGeffc 


Anyone else think that this is really just behavior mod “re-packaged”?

 
Michael

Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
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Re: [tips] Habits and Behavior Modification

[Paul Brandon]

It’s been going on for years!

On Dec 10, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Michael Britt  wrote:

> I don’t know if you’re following the current interest in “habits” but there 
> is a great interest (has been for perhaps 2 years) around habits - especially 
> after the books “Habit”, “Nudge”, and “Hooked" came out.
> 
> I’ve read Hooked and I’m working on Habit and it seems to me like this is 
> just warmed over ideas from behavior modification.  The key idea in these 
> books is that our daily behavior (i.e., habits) have been created (shaped) by 
> external cues, which lead to routines, which result in rewards.  Here and 
> there these authors throw in a little neuroscience and a sprinkling of ideas 
> from cognitive psych, but the core ideas are just things we’e known for years 
> from the work of behaviorists.  
> 
> If you’re not familiar with Habits, here’s the author of the book on Youtube:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eYrhGeffc
> 
> Anyone else think that this is really just behavior mod “re-packaged”?
> 
>  
> Michael
> 
> Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
> http://www.ThePsychFiles.com
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepsychfiles/
> Twitter: mbritt

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
pkbra...@hickorytech.net




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