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The Private Life of Psychopaths
In training sessions people are often fascinated by, and want to understand, psychopathic behaviours. I often utilise different moral...
Phil Harris
Jul 13, 20231 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Dec 9, 20213 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Jun 23, 20213 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Mar 26, 20213 min read
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Fanatics Brains Unmasked
Researchers have mapped an underlying "psychological signature" for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political or...
Phil Harris
Feb 24, 20214 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Feb 19, 20213 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Dec 17, 20203 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Oct 23, 20204 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Sep 17, 20203 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Sep 10, 20204 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Jun 16, 20202 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Apr 27, 202017 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Mar 6, 20203 min read
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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,...
Phil Harris
Dec 19, 20191 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Dec 19, 20193 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Nov 10, 20191 min read
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How Psychopaths Control Impulse
People with psychopathic traits are predisposed toward antisocial behavior that can result in "unsuccessful" outcomes such as...
Phil Harris
Sep 23, 20194 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Sep 23, 20195 min read
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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...
Phil Harris
Jul 30, 20192 min read
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