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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 May 28;27(7):1085–1098. doi: 10.1002/oby.22506

Table 3:

Behavior Change Techniques (n=36) Not Used by Any EARLY Weight Management Intervention or Control

2.1 Monitoring of behavior by others without feedback
2.5 Monitoring of Outcome(s) of behavior by others without feedback
4.3 Re-attribution
4.4 Behavioral Experiments
10.5 Social incentive
10.11 Future punishment
5.2 Salience of Consequences
5.5 Anticipated Regret
11.3 Conserving mental resources
11.4 Paradoxical instructions
6.3 Information about others’ approval 13.3 Incompatible beliefs
13.5 Identity associated with changed behavior
7.2 Cue Signaling Reward
7.3 Reduce prompts/cues
7.4 Remove access to the reward
7.5 Remove aversive stimulus
7.6 Satiation
7.7 Exposure
7.8 Associative learning
14.1 Behavior cost
14.2 Punishment
14.3 Remove reward
14.4 Reward approximation
14.5 Rewarding completion
14.7 Reward incompatible behavior
14.9 Reduce reward frequency
14.10Remove punishment
8.5 Overcorrection
8.6 Generalization of a target behavior
8.7 Graded Tasks
15.2 Mental rehearsal of successful performance
15.3 Focus on past success
9.3 Comparative imagining of future outcomes 16.1 Imaginary punishment
16.3 Vicarious consequences

Note: All BCTs on Domains 1, 3, and 12 were used in the EARLY trials