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You Can’t Simply Decide to Be a Different Person
When I was a kid, my dad did something on family vacations that perplexes me to this day: He ran. Every day, at least four or five miles, rising before the sun and before anyone
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New Year’s Resolutions Are Notoriously Slippery, but Science Can Help You Keep Them
Every January nearly half of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. We resolve to eat better, exercise more, get organized, spend less money, and so on. Unfortunately, several studies suggest that most of these resolutions don’t stick. But
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The Promise and Perils of Behavioral Measurement Technologies
In Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13 teams of researchers explore the potential consequences of behavioral measurement technologies.
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Why Having Too Much Free Time Can be as Bad for You as Having Too Little
Have you ever had one of those days — that turned into weeks — when you had approximately 645 things to do and not a single minute for leisure time? Like many of us, Cassie
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A Closer Look at NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program
These NIH programs are designed to function like a “venture capital space” for transformative research.
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Policy in Action: Navigating Behavioral and Well-Being Public Policy
Perspectives on Psychological Science paper charts course through ethics, politics of interventions.
