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Benjamin Gardner

@profbengardner.bsky.social
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Professor in Psychology, University of Surrey. I don't really do this sort of thing. #habit #behaviourchange #socialpsychology #environmentalpsychology #healthpsychology

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Benjamin Gardner @profbengardner.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Delighted to announce our new #habit themed issue in Applied Psych Health & Wellbeing: "Making health a habit" 14 new papers on habit formation, disruption, and maintenance in real-world health + our guest editorial with expert commentary iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Making Health a Habit: Developing the Psychology of Habit to Promote Health and Wellbeing: Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
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Benjamin Gardner @profbengardner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🚰 Shaping the Future of UK Water Efficiency Behaviour Change 🚰 We’ve just completed a landmark agenda-setting project to guide UK water conservation behaviour change activity. With 100+ experts from 60+ organisations, we identified 24 questions holding back progress. Report here: osf.io/wkv5u
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Benjamin Gardner @profbengardner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🎙️ Just gone live! Was a pleasure to talk to @everythingspsych.bsky.social about what #habits are, how to make and break habits, and a little personal experience of limiting teenagers' screen time. Download the episode below!
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Habit Special Interest Group from EHPS @ehpshabit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Remember to join our upcoming Habit SIG session with Dr. @allydivine.bsky.social (University of Leeds) on: “Reinforcing implementation intentions with imagery increases physical activity habit strength and behaviour” 🗓 Friday 20 June 2025 | 🕙 10:00am (GMT) | 🔗 tinyurl.com/295rbjzu
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Benjamin Gardner @profbengardner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
💧WEBINAR: Shaping the Future of UK Water Behaviour Change Activity 💧 We will explore: ✅ Key challenges & priorities ✅ Insights from 50+ industry stakeholders ✅ A chance to shape the UK agenda 📅 24 April | ⏰ 12-1 PM BST 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/unive... #WaterConservation #BehaviourChange
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you're interested in #habits, check out these two papers by @eikekofi.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/mu96jzdd) & @drbengardner.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/3nd4bx5p). I reread them recently & highly recommend them. Each presents a model & uses it to suggest ways to form/break habits in real-world settings.
The title page of Buabang, Donegan, Rafei, & Gillan (2025) Trends in Cognitive Sciences article, "Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits"

DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.00The title page of the Gardner, Rebar, de Wit, & Lally (2024) Social and Personality Psychology Compass article, titled "What is habit and how can it be used to change real-word behavior? Narrowing the theory-reality gap."

https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12975
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Dr Pippa Lally @pippalally.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Come and work with us... the School of Psychology is advertising for psychology lecturers and one is specifically for Health Psychology. jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Health Psychology
Exciting Opportunity in Health Psychology in the School of Psychology, University of Surrey!Join a Top-20 UK University with Ground-breaking Research.We're seeking outstanding Lecturers (and, in excep...
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Habit Special Interest Group from EHPS @ehpshabit.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
EHPS 2025 is coming! 📢 Planning to attend? Submitting habit-related work? Like or comment—let’s see if we have enough for a habit-focused symposium! #EHPS2025 #Groningen #HealthPsychology #Share
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Benjamin Gardner @profbengardner.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Delighted to have had the opportunity to share insights from #habit research, and our 'script elicitation' habit change method, in this new article with @shaylalove.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Invisible Habits Are Driving Your Life
The science of habits reveals that they can be hidden to us and unresponsive to our desires.
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Benjamin Gardner @profbengardner.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
💡New Year’s Resolutions: Let's Talk Habits! 💡 My new @bpsofficial.bsky.social article draws on our cutting-edge #habit research – and some personal experience – to offer tips on effective behaviour change 👉 www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #NewYearsResolutions @surreypsychology.bsky.social
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Benjamin Gardner @profbengardner.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
🌟 Just published: our new paper shows that when you're sleepier than usual, you're more likely to act out of habit. 🚨 New Year's Resolutions tip: Prioritize sleep to help healthy habits stick 🛌 #Habit #NewYear2025 @phdsleepy.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library
When self-regulatory resources are depleted, people tend to act more on “autopilot”, with minimal forethought. It follows that when sleepy, people should be more likely to act habitually, based on le...
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