The most popular financial resolution Americans made for 2025, included saving more money (43%) and paying down debt (37%), and spending less (31%), recent survey found. Craft a mix of resolutions ...

Wharton professor Katy Milkman explains the research behind setting goals and how we can do better at following through. She’s also the author of the best-selling book, How to Change: The Science of ...

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 ...

If your resolutions are already faltering in February, worry not - there's always Chinese New Year, and Hong Kong's Sonia Samtani is here to help Every new year, many of us set resolutions, whether it ...

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 ...

Are you aiming to sleep better, eat healthier, scroll less and/or generally upgrade your life starting on Jan. 1? Join the club — it's several thousand years old. New Year's resolutions are a key part ...

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 ...

January is wrapping up. And if you are a New Year’s resolution person, I have some not great news for you. February is kind of where resolutions go to die. In fact, some studies show that 88 percent ...

Thinking about what you can do differently in the new year? New Year’s resolutions are tough to stick to, but they can help you ring in 2026 on the right note. Read full article: ‘The American dream ...