Psychological determinants of health behavior

MS Hagger - Annual Review of Psychology, 2025 - annualreviews.org
This review provides a critical overview of current evidence on psychological health
behavior determinants and its value in informing intervention and future determinants …

Theoretical explanations for maintenance of behaviour change: a systematic review of behaviour theories

D Kwasnicka, SU Dombrowski, M White… - Health psychology …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Behaviour change interventions are effective in supporting individuals in
achieving temporary behaviour change. Behaviour change maintenance, however, is rarely …

Is ego depletion real? An analysis of arguments

M Friese, DD Loschelder, K Gieseler… - Personality and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
An influential line of research suggests that initial bouts of self-control increase the
susceptibility to self-control failure (ego depletion effect). Despite seemingly abundant …

Six lessons for a cogent science of implicit bias and its criticism

B Gawronski - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Skepticism about the explanatory value of implicit bias in understanding social
discrimination has grown considerably. The current article argues that both the dominant …

Situational strategies for self-control

AL Duckworth, TS Gendler… - … on Psychological Science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Exercising self-control is often difficult, whether declining a drink in order to drive home
safely, passing on the chocolate cake to stay on a diet, or ignoring text messages to finish …

Understanding Westerners' disgust for the eating of insects: The role of food neophobia and implicit associations

F La Barbera, F Verneau, M Amato, K Grunert - Food quality and preference, 2018 - Elsevier
The interest for the potential introduction of insects in the human diet is progressively
increasing and several benefits for both human health and the environment have been …

Executive functions and self-regulation

W Hofmann, BJ Schmeichel, AD Baddeley - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Self-regulation is a core aspect of adaptive human behavior that has been studied, largely in
parallel, through the lenses of social and personality psychology as well as cognitive …

Nonconscious processes and health.

P Sheeran, PM Gollwitzer, JA Bargh - Health psychology, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: Health behavior theories focus on the role of conscious, reflective factors (eg,
behavioral intentions, risk perceptions) in predicting and changing behavior. Dual-process …

Ego depletion and the strength model of self-control: a meta-analysis.

MS Hagger, C Wood, C Stiff… - Psychological …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
According to the strength model, self-control is a finite resource that determines capacity for
effortful control over dominant responses and, once expended, leads to impaired self-control …

Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis

D Nettle, C Andrews, M Bateson - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …