The Road to Unintended Consequences Is Paved with Motivational Apps

Austin, Caroline Graham; Kwapisz, Agnieszka

doi:10.1111/joca.12135

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“…If habit formation involves reduced sensitivity to rewards, then people who deliberate about how to achieve a certain outcome may fail to form habits. Perhaps this is why email reminders to perform a behavior can hinder habit formation (Austin & Kwapisz, 2016; Stawarz, Cox, & Blandford, 2015). A reminder can keep the goals for an action salient and impede context–response associations in memory.…”

Section: Habit Learning and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Habit in Personality and Social Psychology

Wood

2017

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

222

169

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Habits are largely absent from modern social and personality psychology. This is due to outdated perspectives that placed habits in conflict with goals. In modern theorizing, habits are represented in memory as implicit context-response associations, and they guide responding in conjunction with goals. Habits thus have important implications for our field. Emerging research shows that habits are an important mechanism by which people self-regulate and achieve long-term goals. Also, habits change through specific interventions, such as changes in context cues. I speculate that understanding of habits also holds promise for reducing intergroup discrimination and for understanding lay theories of the causes for action. In short, by recognizing habit, the field gains understanding of a central mechanism by which actions persist in daily life.

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Section: Habit Learning and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Habit in Personality and Social Psychology

Wood

2017

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

222

169

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“…Habit change is an issue of interest across literatures (Austin & Kwapisz, 2017 ; Griskevicius et al, 2012 ; Verplanken & Wood, 2006 ). Research indicates that despite people's intentions to change or improve certain behaviors, prexisting behaviors tend to rapidly return (Verplanken & Wood, 2006 ; Wood et al, 2002 ).…”

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“…Habit change is an issue of interest across literatures (Austin & Kwapisz, 2017;Griskevicius et al, 2012;Verplanken & Wood, 2006).…”

Section: Habit Changementioning

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“…For several years, the question of behavioral change has preoccupied academics and practitioners across disciplines (e.g., Austin & Kwapisz, 2017 ; Griskevicius et al, 2012 ). While citizens have been asked on several levels to improve certain behaviors—notably, physical activity practices, healthier food choices, more responsible consumption or smarter financial choices (e.g., Cadario & Chandon, 2020 ; Parkinson et al, 2017 ; Spader et al, 2009 )—in practice, to change one's habits is a big challenge, and initiatives often show disappointing results (e.g., Brawley et al, 2003 ; Grier et al, 2007 ).…”

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Positive behavioral change during the COVID‐19 crisis: The role of optimism and collective resilience

Guèvremont

Boivin

Durif

et al. 2022

J of Consumer Behaviour

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While the issue of behavioral change is of increasing interest to academics and practitioners, an understanding of its drivers remains limited. Consistent with the possibility that destabilizing events can trigger the implementation of beneficial changes in one's life, this research studies the COVID‐19 pandemic and its influence on the adoption of positive habits. More specifically, it focuses on positive health and lifestyle‐related behavioral changes observed within the confined population, as well as the antecedents of such changes. Two surveys conducted 1 month apart in an urban setting severely affected by the pandemic confirm the role of optimism toward the crisis as an antecedent to four changes: slowdown in pace of life, decluttering of personal space, reflection on consumption habits and adoption of healthy behaviors. Collective resilience, social support and anxiety are identified as determinants of optimism. Results suggest an evolution of certain relations including the increase of collective resilience effect on optimism over time.

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“…In terms of empowering behavior change, QSHFT devices have been credited with increasing users' intrinsic motivation through emotional engagement, social connectedness, and goal actualization by transforming personal experiences into tools for building new and enduring personal habits (Whitson, 2013). At the very least, they have been consistently shown to increase a user's extrinsic motivation (i.e., performing an activity in order to attain a desired outcome), which may be useful when intrinsic motivation is lacking, such as during the early stages of acquiring new health-related behaviors (Austin and Kwapisz, 2017).…”

Section: Self-management and Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy and the quantified self: A review of U.S. health information policy limitations related to wearable technologies

Brinson

Rutherford²

2020

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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As Americans increasingly integrate quantified selfhealth and fitness tracking (QSHFT) technologies into their lives, the data collected by these devices offer to not only help users to live healthier lives, but also present opportunities for interested parties to identify and target them based on their health-related behaviors. Clinicians, employers, health insurers, data brokers, marketers, and litigators have all expressed interest in accessing individuals' QSHFT data for a variety of purposes. Existing policies related to the collection, aggregation, and use of these data do not consistently address and protect individual health privacy concerns. Indeed, U.S. lawmakers recently proposed two separate bills designed to correct this deficiency. The purpose of this review is to examine current motivations, practices, policies, and regulations related to QSHFT data, identify areas where individuals' health information privacy is currently being compromised, and propose specific solutions to address this escalating area of privacy concern. K E Y W O R D S information privacy policy, mHealth apps, quantified self Americans are increasingly turning to a variety of quantified self-health and fitness tracking (QSHFT) technologies (including smart watches, wearable fitness-trackers, and smartphone applications) in an effort to learn more about their everyday habits, connect with valued others,

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The Road to Unintended Consequences Is Paved with Motivational Apps

Cited by 5 publications

References 63 publications

Habit in Personality and Social Psychology

Habit in Personality and Social Psychology

Positive behavioral change during the COVID‐19 crisis: The role of optimism and collective resilience

Privacy and the quantified self: A review of U.S. health information policy limitations related to wearable technologies

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