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Research on how self-control works could help you stick with New Year's resolutions

  • Written by Marco A. Palma, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director Human Behavior Laboratory, Texas A&M University
imageLet your self-control gain momentum like a snowball rolling downhill.Sira Anamwong/Shutterstock.com

Many of us have already decided that things will be different in 2018. We’ll eat better, get more exercise, save more money or finally get around to decluttering those closets.

But by the time February rolls around, most of us – perhaps...

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