ArticleCollabra. Psychology2024
Characterizing Human Habits in the Lab.
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- Dissecting the interplay of model-based control, impulsivity and compulsivity on self-control in daily life.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity.Learning & behavior · 2025Article
- Action repetition biases choice in context-dependent decision-making.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Assessing the validity evidence for habit measures based on time pressure.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- The reward positivity is insensitive to reinforcer devaluation.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Neural and behavioral signatures of policy compression in cognitive control.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Cognitive computational model reveals repetition bias in a sequential decision-making task.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Neural and behavioral signatures of policy compression in cognitive control.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The reward positivity is insensitive to reinforcer devaluation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Naturally disengaging control to reveal habits.Research square · 2025Article
- Exploring the link between anticipatory outcome encoding in the brain and goal-directed behavior during outcome devaluation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Differential influence of habit components on compulsive and problematic reward-seeking behavior.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Signatures of Perseveration and Heuristic-Based Directed Exploration in Two-Step Sequential Decision Task Behaviour.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Habits pose a fundamental puzzle for those aiming to understand human behavior. They pervade our everyday lives and dominate some forms of psychopathology but are extremely hard to elicit in the lab. In this Registered Report, we developed novel experimental paradigms grounded in computational models, which suggest that habit strength should be proportional to the frequency of behavior and, in contrast to previous research, independent of value. Specifically, we manipulated how often participants performed responses in two tasks varying action repetition without, or separately from, variations in value. Moreover, we asked how this frequency-based habitization related to value-based operationalizations of habit and self-reported propensities for habitual behavior in real life. We find that choice frequency during training increases habit strength at test and that this form of habit shows little relation to value-based operationalizations of habit. Our findings empirically ground a novel perspective on the constituents of habits and suggest that habits may arise in the absence of external reinforcement. We further find no evidence for an overlap between different experimental approaches to measuring habits and no associations with self-reported real-life habits. Thus, our findings call for a rigorous reassessment of our understanding and measurement of human habitual behavior in the lab.
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