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On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions

peer-reviewed empirical paper Silverman and Barasch, 2023, Journal of Consumer Research 49(6), 1095-1117

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“Intact logged streaks increase subsequent engagement relative to broken ones, independent of actual past behavior, because people treat maintaining a logged streak as a goal in itself; the effect is stronger with self-attributed breaks and weaker when streaks can be repaired.”

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