Phil HarrisOct 15, 20183 min readAgreeable People in BusinessIn lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting...
Phil HarrisOct 5, 20181 min readDoes 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 HarrisOct 5, 20183 min readBuying Happiness Depends on Your Social ClassAs 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 HarrisSep 4, 20183 min readSoft Marshmallows Become Hard Cash-Impulse Control Predicts AffluenceFor the first time, Temple University researchers have used machine learning to rank the most important determinants of future affluence....
Phil HarrisJan 12, 20171 min readWhat would you sell out for? Sacred Values and the BrainSacred values, those that really matter to us, guide individual and group decisions in life. We rarely trade off these sacred values in...
Phil HarrisDec 11, 20161 min readIf 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...