Talk:Habit

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Please Consider Merging Article

I would like to propose merging this article into habituation or vice versa, due to the fact that these two concepts and articles in Wikipedia are very related, and can also be considered the same thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mert91 (talk • contribs) 01:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Give Habits a Chance

The page which the Psychology community offered to someone looking up habit on its disambiguation page was habituation, which is heavily behaviorist in tone and, more important, rather technical in its wording. There is good reason to have a page on habitutation. In fact, it is one of the first links that I would want to fold into the text of the Habit (psychology) article. But it does not address the need for a good article that would allow a lay reader to, say, find approaches to changing habits or the full range of thought on how habits work. I am not exclusively interested in bad habits or addictions or spiritual habits or moral exhortations to develop good everyday habits, though any of these perspectives might be useful.

My intention is to start from texts on everyday psychology and older psychology texts like William James' The Principles of Psychology, which book has a full chapter on habits (as opposed to the WP article The Principles of Psychology which has only one sentence that mentions habit as an aside). I expect that it will take a while to develop an article that meets WP standards. Because of my own interests in time management, I intend to stick with this until it is at least mediocre or has some folks with greater expertise (but not too exptreme professional bias) to further improve it. DCDuring 02:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

"Habits" in WP Articles

I've been working hard to check on uses of the word "habit" in WP. I've looked at 700 WP articles to confirm my intuition that "habituation" is not what people are looking for. I found VERY few cases where habituation was clearly what was sought. I even added an internal link habituation for 1 or 2 articles. There were some cases that were arguable, so I left it the way it was if there was a link to habituation, added no link in some cases, and added a habit (psychology) link where I thought it worked. of course I ignored all the uses that were about individual cases of drug, gambling, or smoking habits or where the word was used in a botanical or crystallograohic sense. I also skipped all animal habits, because of the difficulty of figuring out in what sense, say, a horse was conscious. I did learn a bit about the older uses of the term habit over 2000 years or so. Stay tuned. DCDuring 07:07, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Mindfulness vs. Habit

A mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics: the continuous creation of new categories; openness to new information; and an implicit awareness of more than one perspective.

Mindlessness, in contrast, is characterized by an entrapment in old categories; by automatic behavior that precludes attending to new signals; and by action that operates from a single perspective. From Ellen Langer Mindful Learning DCDuring 19:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

From 71.202.65.243 (talk) 23:14, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

• Per Wikipedia policy, removed original research, data that violated Neutral point of view, false and erroneous data, logical fallacies that serve to further make the article ambiguous. Wikipedia is about being an accurate encyclopedic base, not an opinion pool based on faulty logic, fallacy, ambiguous and wordy language that is easily misinterpreted.

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain ^t/c 18:23, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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• Habit (psychology) → Habit
• Habit → Habit (disambiguation)

– Clear primary topic. Virtually all references in Google hits from the web, from books, and from newspapers are to the psychological concept of a tendency to repeat certain behaviors. Note that habituation, drug habit, and habit evidence are merely subtopics of this sense of the term, habit. bd2412 T 19:40, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• I looked over the disambiguation page--it's an easy support. Red Slash 04:23, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
• Support: the psychological phenomenon does seem to be the clear primary topic. ╠╣uw [talk] 13:42, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
• Support I agree that it is primary. Presumably the psychological meaning includes addictive habits as well.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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History of concept

Would it make sense to include an intellectual history of the concept and role of habit, e.g. the importance of habit to Aristotle's ethics? Crust (talk) 12:25, 3 April 2019 (UTC)