alamo 2914 comments on ESH—A guide to forming habits you’ll keep

[alamo 2914]

That’s great, thank you. It might be valuable to also write on MCII—mental contrasting & implementation intention. A meta-analysis showed it is quite effective^[1] (g = 0.336), and it mentioned 2 papers that found it to be more effective than its components—either implementation intention or mental contrasting alone^{[2] [3]}

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   Wang G, Wang Y and Gai X (2021) A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions on Goal Attainment. Front. Psychol. 12:565202. doi: 10.3389/​fpsyg.2021.565202

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   Adriaanse, M. A., Oettingen, G., Gollwitzer, P. M., Hennes, E. P., De Ridder, D. T. D., and De Wit, J. B. F. (2010). When planning is not enough: fighting unhealthy snacking habits by mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII). Eur. J. Soc. Psychol. 40, 1277–1293. doi: 10.1002/​ejsp.730

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   Kirk, D., Oettingen, G., and Gollwitzer, P. M. (2013). Promoting integrative bargaining: mental contrasting with implementation intentions. Int. J. Conflict Manage. 24, 148–165. doi: 10.1108/​10444061311316771