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A large-scale experiment on New Year’s resolutions: Approach-oriented goals are more successful than avoidance-oriented goals

  • Martin Oscarsson,

    Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8209-5351

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  • Per Carlbring ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: per.carlbring@psychology.su.se

    Affiliation Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-8813

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  • Gerhard Andersson,

    Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  • Alexander Rozental

    Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

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A large-scale experiment on New Year’s resolutions: Approach-oriented goals are more successful than avoidance-oriented goals

  • Martin Oscarsson, 
  • Per Carlbring, 
  • Gerhard Andersson, 
  • Alexander Rozental
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  • Published: December 9, 2020
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234097
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