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Abstract: Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. This paper experimentally studies two questions. First, we provide evidence that habits affect strategic communication in an unfamiliar environment. Second, we contrast two mechanisms through which habits operate, preference shaping and inattention. By varying the frequency of communicating in the unfamiliar environment, we find an effect only when the unfamiliar environment occurs rarely. Thus, our results favor the inattention mechanism. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for habits, especially when studying human behavior in infrequent situations.The file contains decision times from the experiment