
Why We Think We Can Keep Those New Year's Resolutions
When we think about taking action sometime in the future, we tend to neglect the constraints we’ll face when the future actually arrives
Marie Hennecke is a Senior Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Her research focuses on self-regulation and motivation, with a particular focus on the processes that instigate goal setting and the processes that explain why some people are more successful in pursuing their goals than other people.
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