The Harry Potter audiobooks helped Katy Milkman make a foundational discovery about exercise behavior. A Harvard graduate student at the time, she was struggling to work out. Once a varsity tennis ...

A new year. A new school year. A new week. Mental health experts say our brains are naturally drawn to fresh starts, wired to find motivation in new beginnings. These moments act like a psychological ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Harry Kraemer, Jr. is a professor at the Kellogg School of Management. With the new year upon us, it’s natural to start thinking ...

If you've made a New Year's resolution, you're not alone. Sixty percent of Americans make resolutions. And the most common one (made by 71 percent of people) is going on a diet and eating healthier.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

As the new year dawns, so too does the opportunity for change. Experts say January can be a good time to reflect on self-improvement, but acknowledge it takes work to make resolutions stick. Studies ...

Research reveals the three main reasons New Year resolutions fall apart, and the three evidence-based shifts that can finally make them stick in 2026. Come January 1st, 2026, billions of us will wake ...

Every January, many of us vow to improve our bodies, minds, careers and houseplants, all centered around the tradition of New Year’s resolutions. But how many Americans actually make resolutions? What ...

New Year’s resolutions gone off the rails? Here’s how to save them. New Year’s resolutions gone off the rails? Here’s how to save them. A question has haunted a Caribbean nation for 40 years: What ...