The Power of Habit – Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

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[254] “work and worry of the boycott” Ibid.

[255] reorganizing the silverware drawer “Angie Bachmann” is a pseudonym. Reporting for her story is based on more than ten hours of interviews with Bachmann, additional interviews with people who know Bachmann, and dozens of news articles and court filings. However, when Bachmann was presented with fact-checking questions, she declined to participate except to state that almost all details were inaccurate-including those she had previously confirmed, as well as facts confirmed by other sources, in court records, or by public documents-and then she cut off communication.

[256] “while thousands are injured” The Writings of George Washington, vol. 8, ed. Jared Sparks (1835).

[257] swelled by more than $269 million Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission, Des Moines, Iowa, 2010.

[258] “What have I done?” Simon de Bruxelles, “Sleepwalker Brian Thomas Admits Killing Wife While Fighting Intruders in Nightmare,” The Times, November 18, 2009.

[259] “I thought somebody had broken in” Jane Mathews, “My Horror, by Husband Who Strangled Wife in Nightmare,” Daily Express, December 16, 2010.

[260] “She’s my world” Simon de Bruxelles, “Sleepwalker Brian Thomas Admits Killing Wife While Fighting Intruders in Nightmare.” The Times, November 18, 2009.

[261] annoying but benign problem In some instances, people sleepwalk while they experience dreams, a condition known as REM sleep behavior disorder (see C. H. Schenck et al., “Motor Dyscontrol in Narcolepsy: Rapid-Eye-Movement [REM] Sleep Without Atonia and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder,” Annals of Neurology 32, no. 1 [July 1992]: 3-10). In other instances, people are not dreaming, but move nonetheless.

[262] something called sleep terrors C. Bassetti, F. Siclari, and R. Urbaniok, “Violence in Sleep,” Schweizer Archiv Fur Neurologie und Psychiatrie 160, no. 8 (2009): 322-33.

[263] the higher brain to put things C. A. Tassinari et al., “Biting Behavior, Aggression, and Seizures,” Epilepsia 46, no. 5 (2005): 654-63; C. Bassetti et al., “SPECT During Sleepwalking,” The Lancet 356, no. 9228 (2000): 484-85; K. Schindler et al., “Hypoperfusion of Anterior Cingulate Gyrus in a Case of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dustonia,” Neurology 57, no. 5 (2001): 917-20; C. A. Tassinari et al., “Central Pattern Generators for a Common Semiology in Fronto-Limbic Seizures and in Parasomnias,” Neurological Sciences 26, no. 3 (2005): 225-32.

[264] “64% of cases, with injuries in 3%” P. T. D’Orban and C. Howard, “Violence in Sleep: Medico-Legal Issues and Two Case Reports,” Psychological Medicine 17, no. 4 (1987): 915-25; B. Boeve, E. Olson, and M. Silber, “Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder: Demographic, Clinical, and Laboratory Findings in 93 Cases,” Brain 123, no. 2 (2000): 331-39.

[265] both the United States and the United Kingdom John Hudson, “Common Law-Henry II and the Birth of a State,” BBC, February 17, 2011; Thomas Morawetz, “Murder and Manslaughter: Degrees of Seriousness, Common Law and Statutory Law, the Model Penal Code,” Law Library-American Law and Legal Information, http://law.jrank.org/pages/18652/Homicide.html.

[266] would have never consciously carried out M. Diamond, “Criminal Responsibility of the Addiction: Conviction by Force of Habit,” Fordham Urban Law Journal 1, no. 3 (1972); R. Broughton et al., “Homicidal Somnambulism: A Case Report,” Sleep 17, no. 3 (1994): 253-64; R. Cartwright, “Sleepwalking Violence: A Sleep Disorder, a Legal Dilemma, and a Psychological Challenge,” American Journal of Psychiatry 161, no. 7 (2004): 1149-58; P. Fenwick, “Automatism, Medicine, and the Law,” Psychological Medicine Monograph Supplement, no. 17 (1990): 1-27; M. Hanson, “Toward a New Assumption in Law and Ethics,” The Humanist 66, no. 4 (2006).

[267] attack occurred during a sleep terror L. Smith-Spark, “How Sleepwalking Can Lead to Killing,” BBC News, March 18, 2005.

[268] later acquitted of attempted murder Beth Hale, “Sleepwalk Defense Clears Woman of Trying to Murder Her Mother in Bed,” Daily Mail, June 3, 2009.

[269] sleep terrors and was found not guilty John Robertson and Gareth Rose, “Sleepwalker Is Cleared of Raping Teenage Girl,” The Scotsman, June 22, 2011.

[270] “Why did I do it?” Stuart Jeffries, “Sleep Disorder: When the Lights Go Out,” The Guardian, December 5, 2009.

[271] “his mind had no control” Richard Smith, “Grandad Killed His Wife During a Dream,” The Mirror, November 18, 2009.