Talk:Habit (disambiguation)

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Habits are formed from thoughts and actions. Forming a habit is often as simple as thinking about the same thing repeatedly and acting in the same way. It may not be possible to find a root cause of your habit we do know that the total sum of your habits forms your character.

Each time a situation calls for any thought or action there must be some response. This can especially be troublesome if it is remembered in any number of ways especially if it is quickly dismissed because it may lead to misuse.

Especially in cases of new habits where such a digressions may be possible. Though it may be difficult to trace the root causes of a habit.

Breaking a habit requires a great deal of conscious effort and a lot of patience but follows essentially the same process as remembering one.

In order not to exacerbate the problem further.

It may be possible if not necessary to look for the cause in another place.

That it might become some other distraction is still always a possibility.

Which may not be considered lightly by simply by allowing that it changes over time.

Therefore it is imperative to actively promote good or desired habits and watch out for undesirable habits that may be formed without conscious effort.

Hijacking the Word "Habit" into "Habituation"[edit]

I don't mind that some psychologists use the word habituation in the way they do. I do mind that the behavioral phenomenon of habit is hardly mentioned in Wikipedia and that any reference to habit gets redirect to this disambiguation page which doesn't offer a choice to the reader that is more proximate to their likely interests. I know that popular terms are very ambiguous, but the term habit certainly meant something serious to William James. And yet the word habit gets NO mention in that article and a single off-handed mention in the article on his famous The Principles of Psychology. I think this is why pop-psych is so successful: the psychologists don't like to deal with concepts that people can grasp. DCDuring 01:30, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any reference to habit that redirects here clearly predates the disambiguation page and should be updated to point to whichever definition is most correct. There are multiple meanings of the word 'habit' and a disambiguation page is appropriate. --Irrevenant [ talk ] 07:34, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Habit (psychology) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 19:45, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]