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New Year’s resolutions usually fall by the wayside, but there is a better approach to making real changes

  • Written by Michele Patterson Ford, Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
imageResolutions often rely on willpower to push through or follow through, but research shows they usually don't work. Guillermo Spelucin Runciman/iStock via Getty Images

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