From: New York Magazine
Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions to Yourself, Please
January 4, 2016
New York Magazine:
Are you making a resolution this new year? Good! That’s good. A small request: Whatever it is that you’re resolving to become in 2016, keep it to yourself. This is for your own good.
Researchers call this sort of nonsense social reality — that is, people often mistake talking about their goal for progress toward achieving that goal, and this is especially true when the goal is tied up with their identity, or the way they want to be perceived by others. Back in 2009, New York University psychologist Peter M. Gollwitzer and others published a paper in Psychological Science investigating this idea, including an experiment involving a group of psychology graduate students.
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