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A New Hope

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Can We Actually Experiment With Fresh Starts?

People are more likely to create goals, or search for the term diet on google. The first step on that fresh start journey towards our new goal, is usually to goggle it. We flipped a coin and randomly assigned some of them to get a menu of options that included the first day of spring - labelled as such. And others got exactly the same menu of options,. But instead of labelling at the first days of spring, we just labelled it a the third thursday in march. It always had a label. It always was, like called out as a special day. In the other case, the special day was a fresh start. In theother was arbitrary.

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