TY - JOUR
T1 - Hale and Hearty Policies
T2 - How Psychological Science Can Create and Maintain Healthy Habits
AU - Rothman, Alexander J.
AU - Gollwitzer, Peter M.
AU - Grant, Adam M.
AU - Neal, David T.
AU - Sheeran, Paschal
AU - Wood, Wendy
N1 - Funding Information:
Wendy Wood’s research on habits is currently supported by a grant from the Templeton Foundation: The Neuropsychology of Developing Good Habits (#52316), Wendy Wood PI, John Monterosso co-PI.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Strategies are needed to ensure that the U.S. Government meets its goals for improving the health of the nation (e.g., Healthy People 2020). To date, progress toward these goals has been undermined by a set of discernible challenges: People lack sufficient motivation, they frequently fail to translate healthy intentions into action, their efforts are undermined by the persistence of prior unhealthy habits, and they have considerable difficulty maintaining new healthy patterns of behavior. Guided by advances in psychological science, we provide innovative, evidence-based policies that address each of these challenges and, if implemented, will enhance people’s ability to create and maintain healthy behavioral practices.
AB - Strategies are needed to ensure that the U.S. Government meets its goals for improving the health of the nation (e.g., Healthy People 2020). To date, progress toward these goals has been undermined by a set of discernible challenges: People lack sufficient motivation, they frequently fail to translate healthy intentions into action, their efforts are undermined by the persistence of prior unhealthy habits, and they have considerable difficulty maintaining new healthy patterns of behavior. Guided by advances in psychological science, we provide innovative, evidence-based policies that address each of these challenges and, if implemented, will enhance people’s ability to create and maintain healthy behavioral practices.
KW - habits
KW - health behavior
KW - intention
KW - maintenance
KW - policy
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U2 - 10.1177/1745691615598515
DO - 10.1177/1745691615598515
M3 - Article
C2 - 26581721
AN - SCOPUS:84947434892
SN - 1745-6916
VL - 10
SP - 701
EP - 705
JO - Perspectives on Psychological Science
JF - Perspectives on Psychological Science
IS - 6
ER -