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Research over the last decade has shown that loneliness is an important determinant of health. It is associated with considerable...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
Friends: Why We Get Picky?
We like people like us. However, as we age, we get even more selective about our friendship groups. When humans age, they tend to favor...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 11, 2020
- 3 min
Binge Alcohol-Lose Empathy
People who binge-drink show more extensive dysfunction across their brains than previously realised, a new study from the University of...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 15, 2020
- 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...
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Phil Harris
- Apr 29, 2020
- 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...
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Phil Harris
- Mar 27, 2020
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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