Behavior-change maintenance
Why sustaining a behavior over time is not identical to initiating it.
1 claim
EVIDENCE MAP
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Find claims through familiar subjects and the parts of the Human OS they affect.
The Evidence Map is organized around individual claims, but most questions cross more than one chapter or module.
Topic pages gather related claims without turning them into a new argument. Each claim retains its evidence classification, limitations, sources, and book references.
Burnout and occupational strain
Burnout, exhaustion, detachment, efficacy, and the cost of sustained occupational demand.
1 claim
Implementation intentions
Plans that link an anticipated situation to a specific goal-directed response.
1 claim
Sensory and environmental inputs
Noise, light, environmental exposure, and other external signals that can alter physiological or attentional state.
1 claim
Slow breathing and psychophysiology
How slower breathing patterns interact with cardiorespiratory and autonomic regulation.
1 claim
Stress and adaptation
How stress responses can support short-term adaptation or become costly when demand is repeated, prolonged, or poorly recovered.
1 claim
Behavior-change frameworks
Frameworks that describe capability, opportunity, motivation, and other conditions shaping behavior.
1 claim
Hormesis and dose response
Dose-dependent adaptive responses in which low or bounded stress can produce different effects from larger or repeated exposure.
1 claim
Identity-based motivation
How contextually accessible identities can shape action-readiness and interpretation.
1 claim
Respiratory-cardiac coupling
Beat-to-beat heart-rate changes associated with the respiratory cycle, including respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
1 claim
Sleep and circadian rhythm
Wake timing, circadian physiology, sleep, and biological timing across the day.
5 claims
Stress and allostatic load
Repeated stress, cumulative physiological burden, and the cost of incomplete return across interacting body systems.
3 claims
Attention and interruption
Notifications, attentional capture, interruption, and the immediate cost of reorienting.
1 claim
Carbon dioxide and respiratory drive
How CO2/H+ chemoreception contributes to ventilatory control and the drive to breathe.
1 claim
Cross-stressor adaptation
Whether adaptation to one stressor transfers to other forms of stress, and the limits of that transfer.
1 claim
Effort-based motivation
How effort requirements interact with expected value and motivational choice.
1 claim
Movement and physical activity
Physical activity, inactivity, bodily demand, and long-term capacity.
1 claim
Self-regulatory feedback
Feedback-loop models in which discrepancies between current and reference states guide adjustment.
1 claim
Breath-hold safety
Safety considerations for hyperventilation, prolonged breath-holding, and underwater practice.
1 claim
Decentering and meta-awareness
Psychological constructs related to noticing thoughts, feelings, and internal events with less fusion or automatic identification.
1 claim
Goal adjustment
Disengagement from unattainable goals and reengagement with alternatives.
1 claim
Relapse and maintenance
Clinical relapse-prevention models used as context for understanding return under high-risk conditions.
1 claim
Behavior and decision-making
Defaults, habits, present bias, immediate relief, and the conditions that shape action.
3 claims
Meal timing and cardiometabolic regulation
How the timing and frequency of eating relate to cardiometabolic markers and daily metabolic organization.
1 claim
Psychological safety
Shared beliefs about interpersonal risk-taking and their relationship to team learning behavior.
1 claim
Reward prediction error
How differences between expected and experienced outcomes can update future action values.
1 claim
Social relationships and health
Associations between social relationships, long-term health, and mortality risk.
1 claim
Stress and cognitive control
How stress can affect working memory, prefrontal function, attention, and top-down control.
3 claims
Aging and healthspan
Biological aging, long-term adaptive range, cumulative load, and the conditions associated with durable function.
4 claims
Circadian metabolism
Interactions among feeding-fasting cycles, circadian clocks, and metabolic timing.
1 claim
Emotional contagion
Transmission of mood within groups and from leaders to group members.
2 claims
Practice-based field observation
Anonymized observations from real-world follow-up conversations, explicitly distinguished from controlled research.
1 claim
Recovery from work
Psychological detachment, unwinding, relaxation, mastery, control, and the difference between stopping and recovering.
1 claim
Social regulation of threat
How social proximity and supportive contact can alter threat responding and the cost of coping.
1 claim
Environment and health
How social and physical context shape repeated behavior, exposure, and long-term outcomes.
1 claim
Identity transition
Experimentation, integration, continuity, and social identity during life and role transitions.
1 claim
Interoception
Signals from inside the body and their relationship to awareness, emotion, perception, and mental health.
1 claim
Memory and consolidation
Sleep, learning, memory consolidation, and the integration of prior experience.
1 claim
Time-restricted eating
Human evidence on time-restricted eating, including context-dependent benefits and null findings.
1 claim
Ecological momentary assessment
Repeated observation of experience close to the moment and in natural settings rather than relying only on retrospective summaries.
1 claim
Fasting safety
Groups and conditions for which intermittent fasting may require avoidance or medical guidance.
1 claim
Income and well-being
Relationships between income, life evaluation, and experienced emotional well-being.
1 claim
Worry, rumination, and perseverative cognition
Repeated thought that can extend stress-related activation beyond the original event.
1 claim
Systems and regulation
Integrated models of human functioning, homeostasis, allostasis, and dynamic regulation.
2 claims
Diet-related human adaptation
Population-level genetic and cultural adaptations related to digestion and food tolerance.
1 claim
Habit cues and context
How recurring contexts can trigger habitual behavior, including cues people may not accurately identify themselves.
1 claim
Performance and compensation
Maintaining visible performance under stress or workload by increasing compensatory effort and hidden cost.
2 claims
Time affluence
Perceived sufficiency of time and the use of money to reduce time pressure.
1 claim
Financial scarcity and cognition
How financial concerns can consume cognitive resources under some conditions.
1 claim
Habits and automaticity
Context-linked automatic behavior, habit expression, and the effect of stress on habitual responding.
1 claim
Nutrition and physical demand
How nutritional requirements and timing change with training, performance, and recovery demand.
1 claim
Avoidance and reinforcement
Controlled learning mechanisms through which reducing aversive outcomes can reinforce avoidance responses.
1 claim
Cold-water physiology and safety
Cold shock, breathing and cardiovascular responses, and drowning-related risks of sudden cold-water immersion.
1 claim
Healthy aging and functional ability
Healthy aging framed around functional ability, intrinsic capacity, environment, and their interaction.
1 claim
Built and natural environment
Relationships among urban design, greenspace, physical activity, and health-relevant exposure.
2 claims
Heat exposure and safety
Heat-related physiological load and factors that increase vulnerability.
1 claim
Contrast exposure
Safety interpretation when heat and cold exposures are combined.
1 claim
Walking and cognition
Experimental evidence on walking and creative ideation.
1 claim
Integrative exercise physiology
Whole-body responses to exercise across tissues, organs, metabolism, and cardiovascular demand.
1 claim
Skeletal muscle signaling
Skeletal muscle as a secretory and metabolically active organ, including myokine signaling.
1 claim
Exercise and stress reactivity
Effects of acute exercise on physiological and psychological stress reactivity and recovery.
1 claim
Placebo and nocebo
How expectation and treatment context can alter bodily experience through psychobiological pathways.
1 claim