New Year’s resolutions

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How to use habit science to help you keep your New Year’s resolution

"The key to mastering habits is to understand how difficult it is to simply will them away. But you can deploy a kind of 'reverse-engineering' based on the science of habits."  Wendy Wood, PhD, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences   More [...]

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Psychology offers 5 ways to help keep your new year’s resolutions

"A common mistake is being overly ambitious with our new year resolutions. It’s best to prioritise goals and focus on one behaviour. The ideal approach is to make small, incremental changes that replace the habit with a behaviour that supplies a similar reward." -  Authors: Brian Harman, Lecturer in Marketing, De [...]

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New Year’s resolution tips for 2021: Focus on getting to the end of COVID-19

"The future has become less predictable, which also means that setting long-term goals is much more difficult. It’s hard to imagine an ideal self without knowing what that self will be experiencing." - Katherine Arbuthnott, Professor of Psychology, University of Regina   Welcoming the new year may feel a bit [...]

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