A year ago I mentioned I’d signed up for a study on keeping New Year’s resolutions, and the main advice my control group got was to go public. The resolution I used in the study was writing a novel, so I actually achieved it, and telling many people I knew about it definitely helped me to get it done.
The results of the entire study have been published recently and it seems like my behaviour was typical for a woman – we keep resolutions better if we go public. Men, on …