The End of Family?
Outside of work, I am a very keen family historian. It fascinates me how people lived everyday lives in past millennia and how their...
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Phil Harris
Sep 23, 20195 min read
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...
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Phil Harris
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Poverty Written into Your Genes?
A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at...
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Phil Harris
Jan 9, 20192 min read
Social Mobility: Higher Education Not the Answer
I have suggested for sometime that the primary goal of getting as many young people as possible into higher education would not solve...
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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
Oct 5, 20181 min read
Does 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...
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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
Nov 26, 20171 min read
Anti-Poverty Programmes Examined
If one reads the research on social mobility you cannot help but come to rather gloomy conclusions. Adding to this research that shows...
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Phil Harris
Oct 10, 20173 min read
Parenting Style Shaped by Economics
In lectures on child development I explore how parenting style is not a fixed quality within the parent. Research demonstrates that...
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Phil Harris
Oct 9, 20172 min read
Growing Up On Easy Street
In lectures I often examine research that suggests that social economic positions influences child development dramatically. A new study...
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Phil Harris
Apr 6, 20171 min read
Poverty: A Brain Changer?
The effects of poverty on human psychology is an under-researched area. However, new insights from brain scanning and cognitive testing...
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Phil Harris
Feb 2, 20171 min read
Class Discrimination: The Hidden Bias
I have always been interested in the idea of social mobility. Recovery from substance abuse and mental health entails the reconstruction...
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Phil Harris
Dec 13, 20162 min read
Child and Adolescent Trajectories: More Evidence Emerges
A great deal of my recent work in addiction and mental health has been focused on understanding and addressing divergent patterns of drug...
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