Money

Agreeable People in Business

In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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