Psychology & Psychiatry

How to succeed in keeping your New Year's resolution

New Year's Eve is coming up, a holiday when many people choose to make a New Year's resolution. They may be hard to keep, but research shows there is one possible way to succeed—rephrase your resolution.

Psychology & Psychiatry

The lottery: You're (very likely) not going to win, so why play?

Sixty years ago last week, New Hampshire became the first U.S. state to allow a government-run lottery following a nationwide ban of lotteries in 1895. Why did Americans grow to disfavor the lottery then? Moreover, considering ...

Health

Try a cholesterol-lowering diet for heart health

With those New Year's resolutions six weeks behind us, some people may have reverted to less healthy ways of eating. Heart Month is a great time to remind yourself why a healthy diet is important for more than just your waistline.

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