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"As human beings, we like to believe that our behavior is primarily guided by our conscious thoughts and feelings," writes researcher in social cognition and neuroscience Maddalena Marini, Ph.D., in her Psychology Today article, The Automatic Mind: How the contents of the unconscious mind guide behavior.
Marini adds, "The interference between automatic and desired behavior can involve different mental abilities, including vision, attention, learning and memory, reasoning and problem-solving, judgment and decision making, and even social stereotyping and attitudes."
Interestingly, three factors have to be in place for any behavior to occur: Capability, opportunity, and motivation.
The trick, the authors say, is to understand what drives a particular behavior and then come up with ideas on how to change it.
There are still people who do not realize the risk they are taking by not using a proper password-this would be a relatively easy behavior to correct.