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Diagnose what's maintaining an entrenched behavior and design the right intervention to shift it. Covers habits, routines, and behavioral defaults. Triggers: 'how do I change this behavior', 'why does this habit persist', 'how do I make this stick', 'behavior change', 'breaking a habit', 'building a habit', 'why can't I stop doing X', 'how do I get people to consistently do Y', 'implementation intentions', 'habit loop'.

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# Psychology: Behavior Change

Behavior is not driven primarily by intention. A person can fully intend to exercise, stop checking their phone, or give direct feedback — and consistently fail to do so. The intention-behavior gap is real and large. It exists because behavior is maintained by systems: habit loops, environmental cues, identity commitments, friction levels, and social norms. Changing behavior requires diagnosing which of these systems is doing the work, then intervening at the right level. Motivational exhortation without system change produces guilt, not results.

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## Your Process

**Step 1: Specify the Behavior**
Be precise. Not "be healthier" but "go for a 30-minute walk after work on weekdays." Not "be a better communicator" but "give direct negative feedback in the weekly 1:1 rather than softening it into ambiguity." Vague behavior targets produce vague interventions.

Also specify: are you trying to **stop** a behavior, **start** a behavior, or **modify** (frequency, intensity, consistency) a behavior? These have different intervention profiles.

**Framing check:** Confirm the specific behavior before continuing. State what you've identified — the exact behavior and whether the goal is to start, stop, or modify it — in one sentence, then use `AskUserQuestion`:
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