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Good habits, bad habits : the science of making positive changes that stick  Cover Image Book Book

Good habits, bad habits : the science of making positive changes that stick / Wendy Wood.

Wood, Wendy, 1954- (author.).

Summary:

'Good Habits, Bad Habits' is a landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive change.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250159076 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Persistence and change -- The depths beneath -- Introducing your second self -- What about knowledge? -- What about self control? -- Context -- Repetition -- Reward -- Consistency is for closers -- Total control -- Jump through windows -- The special resilience of habit -- Contexts of addiction -- Happy with habit -- You are not alone -- Epilogue -- How to stop looking at your phone so often -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject: Habit.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch 152.33 Woo 31681010171338 NONFIC Available -

Wendy Wood is Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California. She has written for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Time magazine, and USA Today, and on NPR. She lectures widely and recently launched the website Good Habits Bad Habits to convey scientific insight on habit to the general public.


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