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What research says about how to stick to your New Year’s resolutions
The Conversation, CC BY82.9 MB (download)
Today, experts will be sharing with us insights into how to make a change in your life -- big or small -- using evidence from the world of academic research.
Two researchers set out to find out why some people might be better at achieving goals than others. The answer, they found, could lie in implicit beliefs.
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Cognitive Science, & Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
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Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
