虚幻的感觉，难以捉摸的习惯：人们在解释行为时忽视了习惯
Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior
——原载美国《心理科学》杂志2022年第33卷第4期——
<Psychological Science> 2022, 33(4)
【摘要】习惯是人类行为的基础。然而，人们可能更喜欢忽视习惯的代理状态，而更喜欢内心状态，比如情绪。我们在帮助行为的在线实验（N = 809 名成年人）以及对美国大学生日常喝咖啡的生态瞬时评估 (EMA) 研究（N = 112）中测试了这种错误归因假设。两项研究都揭示了感知和实际行为驱动因素之间的巨大差距：习惯强度在预测行为方面优于或匹配内在状态，但参与者对其行为的解释强调内在状态。当被激励以提高准确性和解释其他人的行为时，参与者继续将习惯错误地归因于内心状态。我们讨论了这种误解如何对自我调节产生不利影响。【关键词】归属；自动化；认知偏差；习惯; 外行理论；开放数据；开放材料；预注册。
[Abstract]Habits underlie much of human behavior. However, people may prefer agentic accounts that overlook habits in favor of inner states, such as mood. We tested this misattribution hypothesis in an online experiment of helping behavior (N = 809 adults) as well as in an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study of U.S. college students' everyday coffee drinking (N = 112). Both studies revealed a substantial gap between perceived and actual drivers of behavior: Habit strength outperformed or matched inner states in predicting behavior, but participants' explanations of their behavior emphasized inner states. Participants continued to misattribute habits to inner states when incentivized for accuracy and when explaining other people's behavior. We discuss how this misperception could adversely influence self-regulation. [Key words] attribution; automaticity; cognitive bias; habit; lay theories; open data; open materials; preregistered.
本中文解析是针对《虚幻的感觉，难以捉摸的习惯：人们在解释行为时忽视了习惯》（Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior）的一篇论文解析， 该论文发表于美国《心理科学》（Psychological Science）杂志2022年第33卷第4期，作者包括美国南加州大学心理学系的Asaf Mazar 和 Wendy Wood。
（中文解析请阅《华人心理健康报》2022年8月29日PDF版）
论文原文：Asaf Mazar & Wendy Wood (2022). Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior. Psychological Science, 33(4), 563-578.https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621104534
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