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Agreeable People in Business
In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting...
Phil Harris
Oct 15, 20183 min read
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Does University Education Pay Off?
Young people are often expected to attend university to improve their future economic status. In the UK, only 13 per cent of jobs...
Phil Harris
Oct 5, 20181 min read
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Buying Happiness Depends on Your Social Class
As they say, money does not buy you happiness but poverty buys you nothing. What is the best way to spend money to increase your...
Phil Harris
Oct 5, 20183 min read
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Soft Marshmallows Become Hard Cash-Impulse Control Predicts Affluence
For the first time, Temple University researchers have used machine learning to rank the most important determinants of future affluence....
Phil Harris
Sep 4, 20183 min read
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What would you sell out for? Sacred Values and the Brain
Sacred values, those that really matter to us, guide individual and group decisions in life. We rarely trade off these sacred values in...
Phil Harris
Jan 12, 20171 min read
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If Money Does Not Make You Happy You Are Not Spending It Right.
I am a big fan of Prof Dan Gilbert's research on happiness. In what must come to be regarded as a classic paper, he along with Elizabeth...
Phil Harris
Dec 11, 20161 min read
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