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Helping Healthy Habits Stick
A group of prominent psychological scientists outlines specific solutions to help individuals and policymakers maintain healthy habits.
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Parents: Your math anxiety is only making homework harder for your kids
Quartz: While doing a math problem with my six-year-old recently during a classroom session for parents, I barked at her, “Just put the number in any circle.” She looked at me as if I was
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New Year’s Day And Mondays Are The Best Times For Setting Goals, Says Science
Yahoo: Landmarks in the calendar such as New Year’s Day, and even standard Mondays, are the best times to set new goals, according to new research. Time-based landmarks are more likely to encourage people to
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Everything You Need To Know About Making New Year’s Resolutions
The Huffington Post: Statistically speaking, new year’s resolutions are a losing game. A whopping 92 percent of people who set resolutions don’t succeed, according to University of Scranton research. Still, that doesn’t mean that the start
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Time for a reset? How to make your New Year’s resolutions work
The Conversation: New Year’s resolutions are set with the best of intentions. But they notoriously fail to translate into lasting behavioural changes. The new gym membership falls into disuse come February; items forbidden from the
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How to Be a Better Runner
Scientific American: I ran a marathon, once upon a time. (If you could call what I did “running.” It took me nearly five hours—you do the math.) Still, I did it: laced up my New
