A critical assessment of the goal replacement hypothesis for habitual behaviour

Learning how to obtain rewards (e.g., food) is important for survival. Behavioural and neuroscience research have suggested that reward learning reflects the operation of two distinct neuro-cognitive systems: the goal-directed and habit systems (Balleine & O’Doherty, 2010). Recently, this dichotomy has been challenged by authors proposing that, what we thought were habitual responses, are better understood as goal-directed actions (Kruglanski & Szumowska, 2020). This letter is a critical assessment of [...]

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