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Phil Harris
Aug 10, 20185 min read
Trolleyology: The Nature of Moral Reasoning
Moral dilemmas are often critical feature of working with clients in everyday practice, especially when they become stuck in difficult...
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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
Jul 19, 20183 min read
Gods Own Country: Does Religion or Secularization Predict Economic Growth?
In a recent blog entry Problems Expand with Solutions, I described the psychological process whereby people fail to recognize progress. ...
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Phil Harris
Jul 4, 20185 min read
Problems Expand with Sucess
I hugely admire Prof Dan Gilbert's research. You will see numerous references to his intriguing research on the nature of happiness on...
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Phil Harris
Jun 21, 20184 min read
The Perfect Life Is... Not So Perfect
It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to do so, whether it's...
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Phil Harris
Jun 3, 20182 min read
Spiritual Center of the Brain Discovered
Anyone who has heard me lecture or conduct training on neuroscience will know that I have always emphasized a little regarded region of...
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Phil Harris
May 31, 20183 min read
Conspiracy Theories: A New Insight or is That Just What They Want You to Believe?
Conspiracy theories about government officials and the institutions they represent are widespread and rooted deep in U.S. history...
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Phil Harris
May 9, 20182 min read
Echo Chambers of the Mind
I often explore challenging research findings that questions some core assumptions about human development and treatment processes. I...
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Phil Harris
May 1, 20181 min read
Are Religious People More Moral?
A recent Pew poll suggested that people were less trustful of people who reported that they were atheists and more trustful of people who...
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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
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
Mar 20, 20183 min read
The Smell of Power: Disgust and Voting Patterns
In lectures and training on human development, people are often intrigued when I discuss Johnathan Haidt's research that links the...
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Phil Harris
Feb 9, 201810 min read
Is Cathy Newman Just WEIRD?: Reflections on the Newman - Peterson Debate and the Psychology of Poli
The Newman vs Peterson debate rumbles on online still and I remain intrigued by peoples responses to the debate. Specifically, where...
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Phil Harris
Jan 16, 20183 min read
Special Feature: The (Mostly) Moral Brain
I have become increasingly interested in how people respond to moral dilemmas and what this reveals about the brain. In everyday life, I...
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Phil Harris
Jan 2, 20182 min read
Acquired Sociopathy
When brain lesions occur within the brain network responsible for morality and value-based decision-making, they can predispose a person...
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Phil Harris
Nov 10, 20172 min read
Faith: Not What We Think
Recent studies into the nature of faith have been suggesting that believers in religion are more intuitive and less analytical in their...
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Phil Harris
Jul 27, 20172 min read
Why People are Convinced Their Right Even When They are Wrong
In lecturers I often discuss how the emotional brain takes the big decisions or hijacks the rational brain without us being aware of it. ...
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Phil Harris
Jan 12, 20171 min read
What would you sell out for? Sacred Values and the Brain
Sacred values, those that really matter to us, guide individual and group decisions in life. We rarely trade off these sacred values in...
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Phil Harris
Jan 8, 20171 min read
Getting High on God?
A new study using fMRI brain scanning has revealed that religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much...
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