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Why New Year’s resolutions are so hard to keep

Moshe Bar, director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Mass. General and Harvard Medical School, explains that there’s more to the issue than willpower.

By Moshe Bar

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    January 15, 2012

Moshe Bar, director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Mass. General and Harvard Medical School, explains that there’s more to the issue than willpower.

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