The Pandemic: The Personality Changer
The research on personality is probably the most reliable and statistically robust area of all studies of human nature. Essentially, the...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
Personality: Can We Deliberately Change?
Could a company train an employee to become more conscientious, even if the worker isn't invested in improving that trait? A new study...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 23, 2021
- 3 min
Night Owl or Lark? Personality Traits Predict Sleep Patterns
The link between the different hierarchies of personality, sleep patterns and even genetics has been discovered by researchers from the...
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Phil Harris
- Mar 26, 2021
- 3 min
Narcissists: New Insights
Narcissism is driven by insecurity, and not an inflated sense of self, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. Its...
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Phil Harris
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
Fanatics Brains Unmasked
Researchers have mapped an underlying "psychological signature" for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political or...
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Phil Harris
- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Personality & Life Expectancy Linked
Ground-breaking research led by University of Limerick has revealed for the first time that the immune system directly links personality...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 17, 2020
- 3 min
So Many People-So Few Expressions
Whether at a birthday party in Brazil, a funeral in Kenya or protests in Hong Kong, humans all use variations of the same facial...
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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 17, 2020
- 3 min
Traits Stronger Than Talents
Today I spent the day with a great team of youth workers from across the country and we were discussing personality structure and...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 10, 2020
- 4 min
Is God a Pattern?
In training and lectures on personality, I describe the five key traits of our temperament. One of these traits is Openness to...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Who Bought All the Toilet Roll?
Following the fast spread of COVID-19 across Europe and North America in March 2020, many people began stockpiling commodities including...
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Phil Harris
- Apr 27, 2020
- 17 min
Personality Part I: The Research Base
I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated...
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Phil Harris
- Mar 6, 2020
- 3 min
Who Cares? You Can Tell By Walking
Walking is one of our most natural, daily actions. Now, a new study led by a Tohoku University researcher suggests that walkers use step...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 19, 2019
- 1 min
Pain: Is it a Personality Thing?
Recent advances in neuroscience are unlocking how the major personality traits are linked to neural systems. One personality trait,...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 19, 2019
- 3 min
Matching Traits to Careers
Traits are often much stronger than talents in predicting where people are most happiest. When developing peoples sense of their future...
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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
- Sep 23, 2019
- 4 min
How Psychopaths Control Impulse
People with psychopathic traits are predisposed toward antisocial behavior that can result in "unsuccessful" outcomes such as...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 23, 2019
- 5 min
Personality: Social Complexity Matters
How people behave in one situation often tells us how they will act in others. A shy introvert in one place, for example, isn't likely to...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 30, 2019
- 2 min
Who Are You? Your Phone Knows
RMIT University researchers have used data from mobile phone accelerometers -- the tiny sensors tracking phone movement for step-counting...
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Phil Harris
- Mar 13, 2019
- 3 min
Young People Need to be Somewheres
In lectures and on this blog I have raised the issue of identity being geographical for some. in the conceptual language of David...
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