LUEE Episode 92: New Year's Resolutions and Behaviour Change

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Laura, Gem, Ashlyn, and Ian discuss New Year's Resolutions, how difficult it can be to change habits and behaviours, and some evidence-based ways to maximize your chances of succeeding in your goals.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism that is produced by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Note: Although Gem mentioned that the month of January is named for the Roman god Janus (Ianus), some sources dispute this, attributing the name of the month to the goddess Juno (Iuno).

Links: New Year's resolution (Wikipedia) | Ianuarius (Wikipedia) | New Years Resolution Statistics (Statistic Brain) | Experiment: Resolutions (Quirkology) | Stanford marshmallow experiment (Wikipedia) | The Odds Of Actually Keeping Your New Year's Resolution (Louise Firth Campbell) | Why willpower matters and how to get it (The Guardian) | Willpower: How You Can Get More of It and Why It Runs Out (WebMD) | A prospective study of holiday weight gain (PubMed) | Auld lang syne: success predictors, change processes, and self-reported outcomes of New Year's resolvers and nonresolvers (PubMed) | Why Do Some Turtles 'Breathe' Out of Their Butts? (Discovery News) | SparkPeople | HabitRPG (Gamify Your Life)

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