Hard to Break

Name: Hard to Break | Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick
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Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick

Russell Poldrack(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 4. Mai 2021

232 Seiten

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Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Habit Machine: Why We Get Stuck
1. What Is a Habit?
The Poet of Habits
The Zoo of Habits
Habits and Goals
Why Do We Have Habits?
Understanding Behavior
A Road Map for Understanding Habits and Behavior Change
2. The Brain's Habit Machinery
A System for Conscious Memory
Enter the Lizard Brain
What Are the Basal Ganglia?
Dopamine: It's Complicated
Dopamine and Brain Plasticity
What Does Dopamine Mean?
What about Pleasure?
Selecting Actions in the Striatum
3. Once a Habit, Always a Habit
Old Habits Never Die
The Transition to Mindlessness
Becoming One: Habits as Chunked Actions
Trigger Warning: How Cues Trigger Habits
Can't Look Away: Rewarding Stimuli Capture Attention
A Recipe for Stickiness
4. The Battle for Me
A Competition in the Brain?
Memory System Interactions in Humans
Formalizing the Goal-Habit Distinction
Model-Based versus Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
Can Goals become Habitual?
5. Self-Control: The Greatest Human Strength?
What's Up Front?
Why Is the Prefrontal Cortex Special?
Holding Information in Mind
TheWaiting Is the Hardest Part
Now or Later?
Two Minds in One Brain?
Controlling Our Impulses
Stopping Ourselves
The Rise and Fall of Willpower
6. Addiction: Habits Gone Bad
The Intoxicating Allure of Drugs
"This Is Your Brain on Drugs. Any Questions?"
The Transition from Impulse to Habit
Stress and Addiction
Is Addiction Really about Habits?
"My Drug of Choice Is Food"
Digital Addiction?
Why Do Only Some People Become Addicted?
Part II. Coming Unstuck: The Science of Behavior Change
7. Toward a New Science of Behavior Change
Behavior Change as a Public Health Problem
A New Science of Behavior Change
A New Approach to Behavior Change
Targets for Intervention
8. Planning for Success: Keys to Successful Behavior Change
The Architecture of Choice
Loss Aversion and Framing
Make Rules, Not Decisions
Trigger Warning: Intervening on Habits
Mindfulness: Hype or Help?
Can Self-Control Be Boosted?
Training Inhibition
Envisioning Change
Summing Up
9. Hacking Habits: New Tools for Behavior Change
Can Bad Habits Be Erased?
"I Forgot That I Was a Smoker"
Optogenetics in Humans?
A Neurochemical "Goldilocks Zone": Drugs to Improve Executive Function
Toward Personalized Behavior Change
10. Epilogue
Summing Up
From Individual to Societal Change
Notes
Index

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