Implementation intentions link an anticipated situation to a specific goal-directed response and can make that response easier to initiate when the situation occurs.

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The classification describes the evidence supporting this claim, not the Human OS framework as a whole.

Gollwitzer reviews implementation-intention studies in which people specify when, where, and how they will act, linking critical situations to goal-directed responses and improving goal enactment across multiple settings.

The source does not show that implementation intentions eliminate decision-making, work equally well for every behavior, or make an unsuitable behavior automatically coherent.

The chapter interprets these plans as reducing repeated negotiation. The public claim stays with the situation-response planning mechanism and goal enactment evidence.

Supported by appropriate human studies, major reviews, trials, cohort research, or converging evidence. The strength of the category does not remove population, dose, timing, or context limitations.

Sources are listed according to the role they play in this claim. One source may provide direct support, another may explain a mechanism, establish a limitation, or prevent an interpretation from becoming broader than the evidence allows.

The printed book preserves the claim inside the argument that gives it meaning. These references connect the current digital record to the first-edition evidence trail.

This claim connects to the following parts of the Human OS architecture. The module labels locate the claim inside the framework; they do not imply that the research source validates the architecture itself.