Habits are largely absent from modern social and personality psychology. This is due to outdated perspectives that placed habits in conflict with goals. In modern theorizing, habits are represented in memory as implicit context-response associations, and they guide responding in conjunction with goals. Habits thus have important implications for our field. Emerging research shows that habits are an important mechanism by which people self-regulate and achieve long-term goals. Also, habits change through specific interventions, such as changes in context cues. I speculate that understanding of habits also holds promise for reducing intergroup discrimination and for understanding lay theories of the causes for action. In short, by recognizing habit, the field gains understanding of a central mechanism by which actions persist in daily life.

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人格和社会心理学的习惯。

现代社会和人格心理学在很大程度上没有习惯。这是由于过时的观点使习惯与目标冲突。在现代理论化中，习惯在记忆中被表示为隐式的上下文-响应关联，它们指导与目标结合的响应。因此，习惯对我们的领域具有重要意义。新兴研究表明，习惯是人们自我调节并实现长期目标的重要机制。而且，习惯会通过特定的干预措施而改变，例如情境提示的改变。我推测对习惯的理解也有望减少群体间的歧视，并为行动的成因奠定基础。简而言之，通过识别习惯，该领域可以了解在日常生活中持续存在行为的中心机制。