The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the literature on two planning
intervention techniques in health behaviour research, implementation intentions and action …

Holding a strong goal intention (“I intend to reach Z!”) does not guarantee goal achievement,
because people may fail to deal effectively with self‐regulatory problems during goal …

As modern lifestyles offer ever more opportunities for a sedentary existence, physical activity
has become, for many, a marginal aspect of life. Too little physical activity is linked to …

We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to
form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is …

Objective: Habit might be usefully characterized as a form of automaticity that involves the
association of a cue and a response. Three studies examined habitual automaticity in regard …

Implementation intentions are a powerful strategy to promote health-related behaviours, but
mixed results are observed regarding physical activity. The primary aim of this study was to …

Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis examined whether implementation
intentions are an effective tool to help people put their intentions to eat a healthy diet into …

Background: The Internet has potential as a medium for health behavior change programs,
but no controlled studies have yet evaluated the impact of a fully automated physical activity …

Background The present paper intends to contribute to the debate on the usefulness and
barriers in applying theories in diet and physical activity behavior-change interventions …

OBJECTIVES: The main objective of this review was to provide summary effects for
spontaneous and experimentally induced action planning (AP) and co** planning (CP) for …