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  1. habits

    A habit (or wont as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.The American Journal of Psychology (1903) defined a "habit, from the standpoint of psychology, [as] a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience." Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks. Habits are sometimes compulsory. A 2002 daily experience study by habit researcher Wendy Wood and her colleagues found that approximately 43% of daily behaviors are performed out of habit. New behaviours can become automatic through the process of habit formation. Old habits are hard to break and new habits are hard to form because the behavioural patterns which humans repeat become imprinted in neural pathways, but it is possible to form new habits through repetition.When behaviors are repeated in a consistent context, there is an incremental increase in the link between the context and the action. This increases the automaticity of the behavior in that context. Features of an automatic behavior are all or some of: efficiency; lack of awareness; unintentionality; and uncontrollability.

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  1. Habits

    Acquired or learned responses which are regularly manifested.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of habits in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of habits in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of habits in a Sentence

  1. Jerome Griffith:

    When we look for new customers, we really look at their buying habits and where they shop, it’s why we’ve expanded into Amazon and Kohl’s and Target. These new customers come in through these marketplaces.

  2. W. Somerset Maugham:

    The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  3. Richard Whately:

    A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

  4. Katri Hemio:

    One result surprised us . . . we found that education level did not affect the results, it seems that shift work itself strongly affects workers’ eating habits.

  5. Farris Wilks:

    It’s a predatorial lifestyle in that they need your children, and straight people having kids, to fulfill their sexual habits.

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