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The odds of hitting your target goals is improved by building ‘goal infrastructure’. | Photo from Shutterstock

Three ways to achieve your New Year’s resolutions by building ‘goal...

By Peter A. Heslin, UNSW This article was first published in The Conversation on 1 January 2019 Every year most of us make New Year’s resolutions....
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Have you firmed up your 2015 goals yet? Toni Blay

Symbolic gestures, magical thinking: New Year’s resolutions

By Jayashri Kulkarni, Monash University This article was first published in The Conversation in December 31, 2014 “I will definitely give up smoking – that’s my...
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Feeling pressured to buy Christmas presents? Read this (and think twice...

Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology and Jana Bowden, Macquarie University Christmas marks a peak in consumerism across the West. Despite the COVID downturn, this...
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Group singing | Photo Shutterstock

This video shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people...

By C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW; Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, UNSW; Charitha de Silva, UNSW; Con Doolan, UNSW; Prateek Bahl, UNSW, and Shovon Bhattacharjee, UNSW Production of...
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Mulan | Photo: Disney

Disney’s Mulan tells women to know their place

By Sin Wen Lau, University of Otago and Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Deakin University Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan was released last week amid much controversy....
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Running out of things to do in isolation?

By Anthea Batsakis, The Conversation Right now, the best thing we can do to help stop the alarming spread of coronavirus is to stay home....
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