Useful Readings
We will discuss how these readings apply to your assessment in the Week 2 lecture (scheduled for
9th March). They are very similar to one another in terms of how they might help with the
assessment in that they can identify or provide links to some of the strategies used to create
behaviour change. They are designed to be very general across multiple behaviours and it might be
that there are good studies about specific behaviours depending on the topic you choose. Here I
mean strategies to be about the way a message can be delivered (that is different to the content or
the substance of the message). Some example strategies, might be goal setting or social support.
Carey, R. N., Connell, L. E., Johnston, M., Rothman, A. J., De Bruin, M., Kelly, M. P., & Michie, S.
(2019). Behavior change techniques and their mechanisms of action: A synthesis of links described in
published intervention literature. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53(8), 693-707.
Michie, S., Richardson, M., Johnston, M., Abraham, C., Francis, J., Hardeman, W., ... & Wood, C. E.
(2013). The behavior change technique taxonomy (v1) of 93 hierarchically clustered techniques:
Building an international consensus for the reporting of behavior change interventions. Annals of
Behavioral Medicine, 46(1), 81-95.
Abraham, C., & Michie, S. (2008). A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in
interventions. Health Psychology, 27(3), 379-387.
Hagger, M. S., Moyers, S., McAnally, K., & McKinley, L. E. (2020). Known knowns and known
unknowns on behavior change interventions and mechanisms of action. Health Psychology
Review, 14(1), 199-212. (see Figure 1).