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Jun 15
5 min

Name Emotion Tame Emotion

I was recently looking for some research on a separate project and came across this early pioneering study in language and emotional inte...

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Phil Harris

Apr 29
1 min

Can Low Empathy Be Toxic?

In Training and in Reflective Practice sessions the issue of empathy, relationships and outcomes is often discussed. This is particularl...

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Phil Harris

Mar 27
3 min

How to Support Others on Lock Down

In uncertain times, supporting your friends and family can help them make it through. But your comforting words can have different effect...

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Phil Harris

Nov 10, 2019
1 min

If You are Reading This, You are Probably Very WEIRD

I have often said that what we really know about psychology is what we actually know about psychology students. These tend to be the sub...

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Phil Harris

May 19, 2019
3 min

Artificial Intelligence Therapist are on Their Way-But What are the Rules?

Interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) will become an increasingly common aspect of our lives. A team at the Technical University...

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Phil Harris

Apr 24, 2019
3 min

Empathy: Too Much Like Hard Work?

Empathy, the ability to understand the feelings of another person, is often viewed as a virtue that encourages helping behaviors. But peo...

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Phil Harris

Apr 13, 2019
2 min

The Evolution of Empathy

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute and the Santa Fe Institute have developed a new model to explain the evolutionary origins of empa...

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Phil Harris

Dec 2, 2018
1 min

The Magic Cure for Alcoholism: Empathy

A great privilege of running this blog is to share some of the work of practitioners who have inspired me but whose work is not often as w...

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Phil Harris

Sep 1, 2018
5 min

Free Online Compassion Training from the Center for Healthy Minds

Working with trauma is hard. Being exposed to the pain and suffering others can have significant impact on us as a worker and as a human...

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Phil Harris

Aug 22, 2018
3 min

Kill with Kindness: Why Too Much Empathy is a Bad Thing

People who empathize easily with others do not necessarily understand them well. To the contrary: Excessive empathy can even impair under...

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Phil Harris

Aug 22, 2018
5 min

Head or Heart, But Not Both: Empathy in the Brain

New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story -- one that upon a se...

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Phil Harris

Aug 22, 2018
4 min

The D-Factor: How Evil Are You?

Is there such a thing as an evil personality type? This is a challenging question for many in the field. By and large, people who are dr...

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Phil Harris

Aug 9, 2018
1 min

Could You Switch Off A Robot That Was Begging for Its Life?

I love what moral dilemmas can tell us about our brains and how we make decisions. This is a great example of a moral dilemma which pits...

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Phil Harris

Jul 4, 2018
3 min

Emotional Pitch and Speech

In teaching Motivational Interviewing I describe how we need to listen to the emotional emphasis of the client's statements rather than t...

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Phil Harris

Jun 21, 2018
2 min

The Empathy Assumption

Recently, researchers have debunked the theories canonized in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People that assume you und...

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Phil Harris

Sep 14, 2017
1 min

See Empathy Develop in Real Time

In lecturers and training on adolescent development I often discuss the emergence of empathy during puberty. Now research has caught the...

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Phil Harris

Jul 24, 2017
1 min

Synchronicity: The Deep Impact of Communication

How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has be...

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Phil Harris

May 17, 2017
1 min

The Dark Side of Empathy

In training and lectures I often discuss how the brain processes information in two different ways. This includes the pre-frontal cortex...

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