Benjamin Gardner

Making Health a Habit: Developing the Psychology of Habit to Promote Health and Wellbeing: Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being Click on the title to browse this issue

Delighted to announce our new #habit themed issue in Applied Psych Health & Wellbeing:

"Making health a habit"

14 new papers on habit formation, disruption, and maintenance in real-world health

+ our guest editorial with expert commentary

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🚰 Shaping the Future of UK Water Efficiency Behaviour Change 🚰

We’ve just completed a landmark agenda-setting project to guide UK water conservation behaviour change activity.

With 100+ experts from 60+ organisations, we identified 24 questions holding back progress.

Report here: osf.io/wkv5u

🎙️ Just gone live! Was a pleasure to talk to @everythingspsych.bsky.social about what #habits are, how to make and break habits, and a little personal experience of limiting teenagers' screen time. Download the episode below!

Remember to join our upcoming Habit SIG session with Dr.
@allydivine.bsky.social (University of Leeds) on: “Reinforcing implementation intentions with imagery increases physical activity habit strength and behaviour”

🗓 Friday 20 June 2025 | 🕙 10:00am (GMT) | 🔗 tinyurl.com/295rbjzu

💧WEBINAR: Shaping the Future of UK Water Behaviour Change Activity 💧

We will explore:
✅ Key challenges & priorities
✅ Insights from 50+ industry stakeholders
✅ A chance to shape the UK agenda

📅 24 April | ⏰ 12-1 PM BST
🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

#WaterConservation #BehaviourChange

The title page of Buabang, Donegan, Rafei, & Gillan (2025) Trends in Cognitive Sciences article, "Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits" DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.00

The title page of the Gardner, Rebar, de Wit, & Lally (2024) Social and Personality Psychology Compass article, titled "What is habit and how can it be used to change real-word behavior? Narrowing the theory-reality gap." https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12975

If you're interested in #habits, check out these two papers by @eikekofi.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/mu96jzdd) & @drbengardner.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/3nd4bx5p). I reread them recently & highly recommend them. Each presents a model & uses it to suggest ways to form/break habits in real-world settings.

Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Health Psychology Exciting Opportunity in Health Psychology in the School of Psychology, University of Surrey!Join a Top-20 UK University with Ground-breaking Research.We're seeking outstanding Lecturers (and, in excep...

Come and work with us... the School of Psychology is advertising for psychology lecturers and one is specifically for Health Psychology. jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

EHPS 2025 is coming! 📢 Planning to attend? Submitting habit-related work? Like or comment—let’s see if we have enough for a habit-focused symposium! #EHPS2025 #Groningen #HealthPsychology #Share

Invisible Habits Are Driving Your Life The science of habits reveals that they can be hidden to us and unresponsive to our desires.

Delighted to have had the opportunity to share insights from #habit research, and our 'script elicitation' habit change method, in this new article with @shaylalove.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

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💡New Year’s Resolutions: Let's Talk Habits! 💡

My new @bpsofficial.bsky.social article draws on our cutting-edge #habit research – and some personal experience – to offer tips on effective behaviour change

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#NewYearsResolutions

@surreypsychology.bsky.social

<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library When self-regulatory resources are depleted, people tend to act more on “autopilot”, with minimal forethought. It follows that when sleepy, people should be more likely to act habitually, based on le...

🌟 Just published: our new paper shows that when you're sleepier than usual, you're more likely to act out of habit.

🚨 New Year's Resolutions tip: Prioritize sleep to help healthy habits stick 🛌 #Habit #NewYear2025

@phdsleepy.bsky.social

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