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Habit

Everything on this site about habit — each one naming the study behind it.

You get more done by pairing chores with treats.
Temptation bundling increases adherence to difficult tasks by combining them with immediate gratification.…
You prefer the way things are by default.
The status quo bias describes the tendency to maintain a current state because the potential losses of changing are pe…
You like things more simply because you have seen them.
A 1968 study found that increasing the frequency of exposure to nonsense words increased the affective ratings (liking…
A minor lapse in control leads to a total collapse.
The 'what-the-hell' effect describes how a small violation of a goal leads to the abandonment of that goal entirely.…
Simply seeing something repeatedly makes you like it more.
The mere exposure effect dictates that your preference for a stimulus increases with the frequency of your encounters …