Behavior Change Techniques

Cluster 4 — Shaping Knowledge

4.1. Instruction on how to perform a behavior

Advise or agree on how to perform the behavior (includes ‘Skills training’)

4.2. Information about antecedents

Provide information about antecedents (e.g. social and environmental situations and events, emotions, cognitions) that reliably predict performance of the behaviour

4.3. Re-attribution

Elicit perceived causes of behavior and suggest alternative explanations (e.g. external or internal and stable or unstable)

4.4. Behavioral experiments

Advise on how to identify and test hypotheses about the behavior, its causes and consequences, by collecting and interpreting data