How To Keep a Resolution

When we look back to New Year’s and keeping our resolutions, we can use the commitment devices that come in handy at all times.

How Our New Year’s Resolutions Have Changed

Seeing that our New Year’s resolutions have changed since last year, we have to figure out new devices to keep them.

The Best New Year’s Advice From a Behavioral Economist

Having made this year’s New Year’s resolutions, next, we can ask a behavioral economist about the best ways to stick to them.

The Difference that Nine Cents Can Make

Through a mega study involving more than 60,000 participants, behavioral economists identified the most effective exercise nudges.

How to Keep a New Year’s Resolution

Combining the incentive of a “fresh start” with commitment devices, we could actually keep our New Year’s resolutions.

What a Behavioral Economist Says About Exercise

Further evidence that economics is everywhere, a behavioral economist knows how to incentivize exercise through temptation bundling.

The Two Best Ways to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

To keep our New Year’s resolutions, behavioral economics has several simple suggestions that painlessly preserve our discipline.

The Impact of Last Year’s Academy Awards

A year ago at the Academy Awards, Frances McDormand gave the movie studios a nudge when she referred to the inclusion rider.

Two Ways to Keep a New Year’s Resolution

Called temptation bundling and piggybacking, ideas from behavioral economics provide some easy to follow methods for keeping our New Year’s resolutions.

Lazy Lauren

Dear Alexa, I have to admit I’m getting lazy. As always, my New Year’s resolution is to get in shape. But the protein shakes and five a.m. wake up calls just aren’t as appealing as they used to be. Why…