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How to use habit science to help you keep your New Year's resolution

  • Written by Wendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
How to use habit science to help you keep your New Year's resolutionWillpower and habits involve different parts of the brain.lemono/Shutterstock.com

More than 80% of people who make New Year’s resolutions have already given up on their goals by February.

While there’s a lot of resolution advice on the internet, much of it fails to highlight the crux of behavioral change.

To make individual decisions...

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