New Year's Eve is, decidedly, one of the most stressful nights of the year: we pile on the pressure to execute out-of-the-ordinary, over-the-top plans, find the perfect person to kiss at midnight and welcome the new year with an enthusiasm that we hope will foreshadow the next 364 days. Oh, and we need to document it all on social media.

"The bar is set fairly high, and it can be difficult to achieve this as a goal," says Steven Meyers, professor of psychology at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Ill. "To make matters more stressful, this celebration -- and the resolutions that accompany it -- are supposed to have a symbolic value that is a harbinger for the year to come."

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