The Book of Behavior Change
I Theory
1
Understanding human behavior
1.1
Psychology
1.2
Pragmatic nihilism
2
Changing human behavior
2.1
ELPs: Evolutionary Learning Processes
2.2
BCP: Behavior Change Principles
II Practice
3
The behavior change toolbox
3.1
Core processes
3.2
The causal-structural chain
3.2.1
A note about Intervention Mapping vocabulary
3.3
Operational tools: software
3.3.1
Jamovi
3.3.2
R and RStudio
4
Identifying determinants
5
Identifying sub-determinants
5.1
MAP spreadsheet set-up
5.2
Using the MAP
6
Selecting determinants
6.1
Establishing relevance
6.1.1
Problems with dichotomization
6.1.2
Problems with regression analyses
6.2
CIBER: Confidence Interval-Based Estimation of Relevance
6.2.1
The importance of confidence intervals
6.2.2
The need for visualization
6.3
Applying CIBER
6.3.1
Continous outcome
6.3.2
Dichotomous outcome
7
Identifying Behavior Change Principles
8
Selecting Behavior Change Principles
9
Tying it all together
9.1
The ABCD matrix
9.2
The Acyclic Behavior Change Diagram
9.3
An example
9.4
Creating an ABCD
9.4.1
Creating an ABCD in jamovi
9.4.2
Creating an ABCD in R
10
Zooming out
III Appendices and references
11
Glossary and Chrestomathy
11.1
Conceptually organized glossary
11.2
Alphabetically organized glossary
11.3
Chrestomathy
12
References
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The Book of Behavior Change
Chapter 2
Changing human behavior
2.1
ELPs: Evolutionary Learning Processes
2.2
BCP: Behavior Change Principles