New Years Resolution Psychology!

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77% of people manage to keep their New Years Resolutions after a week, yet only 19% made it to two years. But don’t despair, as science has ways to help us commit to our resolution as best we can! Find out how on Because Science with Kyle Hill.

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Sources:
(1972) SELF-INITIATED ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR: A STUDY OF NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pr0.1972.30.1.123Opens in new tab

(1989) THE RESOLUTION SOLUTION: LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF NEW YEAR’S CHANGE ATTEMPTS
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899328988800166Opens in new tab

(2002) AULD LANG SYNE: SUCCESS PREDICTORS, CHANGE PROCESSES, AND SELF-REPORTED OUTCOMES OF NEW YEAR’S RESOLVERS AND NONRESOLVERS
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jclp.1151/abstractOpens in new tab

(2007) RICHARD WISEMAN’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS EXPERIMENT
http://www.quirkology.com/UK/Experiment_resolution.shtmlOpens in new tab

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION POLLS
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