Automaticity is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to an action, process, or other phenomenon that is automatic, or occurs in an unremitting, self-regulating way. For example, "The automaticity of his breathing was his only sign of life."
And so forth.[20] One strand of empirical research that is relevant to questions concerning the role of consciousness in agency is the work on automaticity; in particular, the research on automatic goal pursuit.
The research on automaticity includes the work on the automatic activation of stereotypes.
At the start of a meeting of European finance ministers in Luxembourg on October 18th the French predictably criticised the notion of "automaticity", which they said removed too much political discretion.
When several council members demurred, opposing a ban that would be imposed on Mr Butler's say-so without further debate, the Americans watered down the resolution to remove "automaticity".
Scientists have long debated the nature of synaesthesia, but they agree that this consistency and "automaticity" of response is what makes the phenomenon different from merely imagining things.
"I haven't lost the automaticity of action, but I can't rely on it the way I used to.
"We need to exploit automaticity," said Professor David Laibson, a behavioral economist at Harvard.
But if we're to avoid "character sclerosis", we must do it, pushing ourselves through the awkward, unreal-seeming first days of a fresh way of life, until eventually the new becomes familiar, and automaticity takes over again.
"We need to see equivalent economic behavior," he said, adding there was a need for "quasi-automaticity of sanctions" against countries that allow budget consolidation to slip.
But Sir Bob Kerslake, who chairs the honours committee, said: "Given the move away from 'automaticity' in other fields, this no longer seems right".
In 1999, the psychologists John Bargh and Tanya Chartrand published a paper, "The Unbearable Automaticity of Being," arguing that our default state is reacting to the latest stimuli.
