Research has shown that about half of all adults make New Year’s resolutions. However, fewer than 10% manage to keep them for more than a few months. As a professor of behavioural addiction I know how easy people can fall into bad habits and why on trying to give up those habits it is easy to relapse. Resolutions usually come in the form of lifestyle changes and changing behaviour that has become routine and habitual (even if they are not problematic) can be hard to do. The most common resolutions are: losing weight, doing more exercise, quitting smoking and saving money. The main reason >>>

Wikimedia Commons By Carol Blair Vaughn Costa Rica is called by many “The Happiest Place on Earth”, including the Happy Planet Index which rated us #1 in 2015, and the U.N.’s World Happiness Report, which rated us #12. We came in behind Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, and The Netherlands – such cold places!! But is this ranking scientific, or just a tourist label from those wanting to make our beaches more crowded? Turns out, there IS a “Science of Happiness”, a new field of social science called positive psychology, which is not to be confused with just positive thinking or self-help. >>>

Kemmner Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:37 pm Christine Kemmner receives doctorate of psychology from Marshall University >>>

Joining the gym, banishing junk food from your diet and slashing your alcohol intake.As the clock strikes midnight across the globe, and the world heralds the start of 2016, millions will resolve to make radical changes to their lives.There will be vows to shed weight, quit smoking and get fit, resolutions to spend more time helping others, take on new challenges and spend more time with loved ones. But, within weeks, days in some sorry cases, these New Year's resolutions will be broken, discarded and long forgotten.Is it possible to stick at a resolution - just one? And why do people find it >>>

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