Recent research from Georgetown University suggests that a subtle shift in a single brain protein—KCC2—can send your dopamine ...

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

School is back in session! For college students, it’s time to meet or reunite with friends, design your dorm room, and learn about fun campus activities. To start classes off right, build good study ...

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 ...

Depending on what it is, a new behavior may become automatic for you in about 66 days. Some habits may be more challenging than others, but persistence and consistency do help to develop new ones.

We’re now just about a month into the new year and, although it isn’t sentient, I’m acutely aware that my notes app list of ...

A new study now shows how long it takes to form the gym habit: an average of about six months. The same study also looked at how long it takes health care workers to get in the habit of washing their ...

(CNN) — As you’re drafting your New Year’s resolutions, you may think that it takes 21 days of repeating an action for that action to become a habit. So, you set out to go to the gym for 21 days, ...

ADELAIDE, Australia — If you’ve ever tried to start a new healthy habit — whether it’s going to the gym, flossing regularly, ...

Although everyone is different, people typically form handwashing habits in one to two weeks, while forming a gym-going habit typically takes months. In our study, we only analyzed the formation of ...