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Most people associate bad habits with the kind of activities that wind up on a list of New Year's resolutions.

Bad habits are often behind morę than just personal peccadilloes.

Texting while driving, littering, mansplaining, farting silently in public, making racist or unfair assumptions about strangers and even spreading the kind of misinformation online that some express warn is threatening to undermine our democracy.

Many people who are awarie od bad habits and recognize them to be potentially harmful blame themselves for being weak and lacking the willpower needed to resist them.

Research suggests that habits, which operate below concious awareness, usually cannot be tamed simply by resolving to resist them.

By the time you realize you're munching on that bag od potato chips, picking your nowe, fighting with someone on Facebook or veering into oncoming traffic while texting, it's too late.

That's the premise of Wood's new research.

Misinformation has been attributed to growing partisan bias, tribalism, polatization and other factors.