Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones · chapter 3 · id atomic-habits-c3-01-the-habit-loop-consists-of-fou

“The habit loop consists of four stages: cue, craving, response, and reward. This is presented as the scientific model of how all habits work.”

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Wood & Neal 2007, Psychological ReviewDOI registry: valid

Habits are context-dependent automatic responses, relatively independent of goals and motivational states once formed. This undermines the idea that craving is a necessary step in habitual behavior.

Berridge 2009, Inquiry (Neuroscience)DOI registry: valid

The wanting/liking distinction shows that motivational wanting and hedonic liking are dissociable neural systems -- partial support for separating craving from reward.

Lally et al. 2010, European Journal of Social Psychologypaywalled — manual check queued

Study focuses on automaticity development over time, not the internal structure of the habit loop. Does not address or validate cue-craving-response-reward.

This claim is a stable, citable object. If you can falsify a verdict, tell us — corrections are loud here.