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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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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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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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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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