ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2012
Impaired goal-directed behavioural control in human impulsivity.
Article in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
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- Building momentum: A computational account of persistence toward long-term goals.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- On the effects of impulsivity and compulsivity on neural correlates of model-based performance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Making and breaking habits: Revisiting the definitions and behavioral factors that influence habits in animals.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Review
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- The effect of courage on stress: The mediating mechanism of behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation in high-risk occupations.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Distraction decreases rIFG-putamen connectivity during goal-directed effort for food rewards.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: translational critique of habit and compulsion theory.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Review
- Goal-Directed and Habitual Control in Smokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Loss Aversion and Risk Aversion in Non-Clinical Negative Symptoms and Hypomania.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Impulsivity and compulsivity are differentially associated with automaticity and routine on the Creature of Habit Scale.Personality and individual differences · 2019Article
- Shared Behavioral and Neurocircuitry Disruptions in Drug Addiction, Obesity, and Binge Eating Disorder: Focus on Group I mGluRs in the Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2019Review
- Substance use is associated with reduced devaluation sensitivity.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Review
- Defining the place of habit in substance use disorders.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2018Review
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Abstract
Two dissociable learning processes underlie instrumental behaviour. Whereas goal-directed behaviour is controlled by knowledge of the consequences, habitual behaviour is elicited directly by antecedent Pavlovian stimuli without knowledge of the consequences. Predominance of habitual control is thought to underlie psychopathological conditions associated with corticostriatal abnormalities, such as impulsivity and drug dependence. To explore this claim, smokers were assessed for nicotine dependence, impulsivity, and capacity for goal-directed control over instrumental performance in an outcome devaluation procedure. Reduced goal-directed control was selectively associated with the Motor Impulsivity factor of Barrett's Impulsivity Scale (BIS), which reflects propensity for action without thought. These data support the claim that human impulsivity is marked by impaired use of causal knowledge to make adaptive decisions. The predominance of habit learning may play a role in psychopathological conditions that are associated with trait impulsivity.
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