Instead of using your usual study methods (and getting the same results you always get, for better or worse) this is the year to level up. There are plenty of great ways to review and retain material, ...

From snacking to mindless scrolling on social media, learn how to break bad habits with proven psychological techniques and ...

Tests are a high-stress situation for many students and professionals as grades, advancement, and sometimes jobs can be on the line. However, some people tend to perform poorly on tests despite ...

Up to 65 percent of our daily behaviors occur habitually—but how habits form remains difficult for researchers to understand ...

Nearly half of our daily activities are performed out of habit, occurring with minimal conscious thought. These automated behavioral patterns, ranging from morning routines to evening scrolling, ...

Mindfully observe what you are doing right now. Is any part of it habitual? What is a habit? Habits are learned associations between context cues and responses, such as between the desk in your room ...

How are your New Year’s resolutions going? According to conventional wisdom, it takes 21 days for a habit to form, and so those habits put into practice at the beginning of the year should have sunk ...

Old habits die hard — but so are new ones borne. Life hackers have long hypothesized about the existence of a provable time benchmark when a new practice becomes a disciplined skill. Old myths have ...