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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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Phil Harris
Feb 13, 20192 min read
Identity Formation in Early Adulthood Predicts Middle Identity
Identity formation is a major developmental task in adolescence but continues throughout adulthood. Significant individual differences,...
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Phil Harris
Feb 6, 20194 min read
Genes, Personality and the PFC: All Linked to Depression
Whilst it is a widely held view that depression is the result of life events alone, this model fails to recognize that these events are...
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Phil Harris
Dec 2, 20183 min read
Young People In Trouble: Cannabis or Character?
More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as...
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Phil Harris
Nov 14, 20181 min read
Autism Study Show Male Trait Bias
A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...
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Phil Harris
Nov 5, 20181 min read
New Personality Model Developed-Are You Average?
A study just published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, analyzed the traits of 1.5 million using a unique logarithms. What did it...
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Phil Harris
Oct 18, 20183 min read
Are Corporations Run by Psychopaths?
A key feature of high flyers is the personality trait of conscientiousness. These individuals are focused, hard working, organised and...
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Phil Harris
Oct 15, 20183 min read
Agreeable People in Business
In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting...
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Phil Harris
Aug 22, 20184 min read
The D-Factor: How Evil Are You?
Is there such a thing as an evil personality type? This is a challenging question for many in the field. By and large, people who are...
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Phil Harris
Aug 17, 20182 min read
The Eyes Are the Window of Your Soul
It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that...
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Phil Harris
Jul 19, 20183 min read
Who is Happier? Conservatives or Liberals?
Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my perennial interest in the psychology of political thinking. Certainly, in these...
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Phil Harris
Jun 13, 20183 min read
Think You Have a Personality Disorder? You Are Probably Right.
Purdue University researchers think the gap between a psychologists' diagnosis and a patient's self-evaluation might not be as extreme as...
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Phil Harris
Apr 29, 20184 min read
Students and Identity
Ever since positing a review of the research behind the Cathy Newman vs Jordan Peterson debate, I have noticed an increasing slew of...
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Phil Harris
Apr 11, 20182 min read
What Do Your Text Messages Really Say About You?
When people think of "personality," they are likely to think of traits such as warmth or extraversion. For example, a person with high...
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Phil Harris
Mar 20, 20184 min read
University & Identity Transition
In an earlier post (Is Cathy Newman just WEIRD?) I suggested that university life is psychological transformative in ways which have not...
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Phil Harris
Feb 18, 20181 min read
What is Personality?
In lectures I often state that we do not have a science of personality. Whilst this was a central focus of early psychology studies, the...
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Phil Harris
Feb 18, 20181 min read
Age Deviancy: Mechanism for Age Related Behavior Discovered
In lectures on the life course I often discuss two central issues about aging. Firstly is the concept of age deviancy. This is the...
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