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Books by Wendy Wood

Wendy Wood is a social psychologist and professor at the University of Southern California, where she holds an appointment in both psychology and business. She spent more than thirty years studying habitual behavior and its relationship to willpower, motivation, and context. Her research has been published in leading journals including Psychological Review and Psychological Bulletin and has been cited extensively in the academic literature on behavior change. Good Habits, Bad Habits, published in 2019, is her first book for a general audience, drawing on decades of laboratory and field research.