One for the Road? How We Decide on the Next Drink
Drinking occurs in a complex set of social interactions and expectations. An interesting study looked at how a range of people took the...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Love and Lust: The Eyes Have It
Two recent studies caught my eye on body language. In the first study the eye movements of of heterosexual students were tracked whilst...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Synchronicity: The Deep Impact of Communication
How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Are You an Ant or Grasshoper? Decision Making Styles Examined
Decision making is at the heart of many of the interventions I teach, like Motivational Interviewing.However people have different styles...
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Phil Harris
Jul 12, 20172 min read
Laughter & the Evolution of Power
In lectures regarding the functions of different human emotions, the topic that interests most participants is when I discuss the role of...
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Phil Harris
Jul 12, 20171 min read
Do You Ever Feel Like a Big Fish in a Small Pond?
Ever felt like a big fish in a small pond in the work place? Recent research has cast light on this work place experience where the...
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Phil Harris
Jun 15, 20172 min read
Groupthink verses the Wisdom of Crowds
I really loved the book Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. In response to US Intelligence agencies failings, the...
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Phil Harris
May 17, 20171 min read
The Dark Side of Empathy
In training and lectures I often discuss how the brain processes information in two different ways. This includes the pre-frontal cortex...
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Phil Harris
May 16, 20171 min read
Reality Check Yourself: A Free Wallchart
Biases are very important to the human brain. They spare us the time and effort from having to think too much about everything all the...
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Phil Harris
Apr 6, 20171 min read
Free Emotional Intelligence Test
In training in Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Therapy I often draw participants attention towards observing body language...
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Phil Harris
Dec 11, 20161 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Dec 11, 20161 min read
Impulse Control is Empathy for Your Future Self
Emerging research suggests that the same area of the brain that is responsible for empathy is linked to the individual's ability to...
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