Research
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Social interactions that draw moderately active individuals into sedentary behaviors are the primary cause of exercise persistence failure (recidivism).
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ModerateSupportsMEDIUM confidence
On the other hand, social interactions encouraging moderately active individuals to become sedentary drove exercise persistence to extinction.
Why this rating
Based on mathematical modeling and sensitivity analysis.
Source
Social influences on physical activity for establishing criteria leading to exercise persistence
Ensela Mema et al. · PLoS ONE · 2022
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0274259
mechanism_only · n=372Cited 19×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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