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The whole concept of feeling pressured to come up with a significant goal or project to take on when the calendar year changes has some major flaws

Start living according to your commitment before Jan. 1 and think of your resolution as an ongoing project.

More often than not, the best-laid plans for the new year go awry

More often than not, the best-laid plans for the new year go awry

Two experts in positive psychology and literature recommend an unconventional but promising approach to keeping your new year's resolutions.

By Mark Canada, Indiana University Kokomo and Christina Downey, Indiana UniversityIf you’ve made a New Year’s resolution, your plot for self-improvement probably kicks into gear sometime on Jan. 1, when the hangover wears off and the quest for the “new you” begins in earnest.But if research on habit...

Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today’s world, similarly devastated by a virus and divided over vaccination three centuries later. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. As a microbiologist and a Franklin scholar, we see some parallels between then and now that could help governmen...