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For good health and longevity, the right mindset – and less stress – may be more important than exercise.
Are your new diet, exercise, meditation and self-care resolutions for 2020 really a personal choice? Or are you a model western “biocitizen,” living a life of unfreedom?
Usually our resolutions are related to our physical health: going on a diet, joining a gym or drinking less. But what about our mental health?
Could your resolution resilience use a little science to back it up? A new study suggests practice can help your self-control – but don’t push it too far.
Old habits die hard.
It’s all about the Goldilocks Threshold.
We know that smoking and drinking is bad for your memory, but combined, they’re so much worse.
If you want to stick to your New Year’s resolutions, a behaviourist’s approach might help you create and keep new, healthy habits.
Reinforcement of the idea that exercise will lead to weight loss acts as a disincentive for those who stick to their exercise goals to only find the scales haven’t turned in their favour.
Every year, millions of people around the world make New Year’s resolutions. And every year, the great majority of us break and abandon those resolutions. Psychology research can help.
A professor of behavioural addiction gives us his top tips for sticking to New Year’s resolutions
Recent psychological research highlights several reasons why New Year’s resolutions might actually work - as well as simple ways to set yourself up for success.
In setting out our resolutions, we should first step back and take stock of what it is that we really want, what we consider the good life to be, and then think about how best we might achieve it.
Like many high school students I completely misunderstood the philosopher Herbert Spencer’s phrase “survival of the fittest.” I interpreted it to mean that those animals of a species that were the most…
Stress is the physical and emotional response we all experience when faced with demanding situations. Our stress can arise from within when we fear we’re unable to meet our own high expectations. Or it…
“I will definitely give up smoking – that’s my New Year’s resolution,” she stated emphatically as she thumped her fist on the table to underline her determination. “All very well”, I thought, as I sat…
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Professor of Management and Scientia Education Academy Fellow, UNSW
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of The Fraser Valley
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW
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John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
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