Honorary Research Fellow
SMS Management and Support University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Christopher is currently a Research Fellow at Stirling Management School at the University of Stirling. He also holds an Honarary position as a Research Associate in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester. Christopher graduated from the University of Surrey with a BSc in Economics in 2005. He then moved to the University of Warwick to complete an MSc in Economics. At Warwick he then became interested in psychology and in 2009 completed a PhD in Psychology on the topic of subjective well-being. After his PhD he held positions as a Research Fellow at the Paris School of Economics, the University of Manchester, and at the Institute of Advanced Studies. His current research crosses the boundaries of economics and psychology and he tries to unite ideas from both disciplines. Specifically he is concerned with understanding how an individual's health and happiness is influenced by the world around them.
Subjective well-being, behavioural economics, economic psychology
Individual Differences in the Impact of Socio-Economic Events on Health and Well-
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Inequality and Social Rank: Income Increases Buy More Life Satisfaction in More Equal Countries
Quispe-Torreblanca EG, Brown GDA, Boyce CJ, Wood AM & De Neve J (2021) Inequality and Social Rank: Income Increases Buy More Life Satisfaction in More Equal Countries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47 (4), pp. 519-539. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220923853
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Valuing the Q in QALYs: Does Providing Patients' Ratings Affect Population Values?
Murphy RP, Boyce CJ, Dolan P & Wood AM (2020) Valuing the Q in QALYs: Does Providing Patients' Ratings Affect Population Values?. Health Psychology, 39 (1), pp. 37-45. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000806
Newspaper / Magazine
Happiness may be a choice – except that it’s constrained by vested economic interests
Boyce CJ (2019) Happiness may be a choice – except that it’s constrained by vested economic interests. The Conversation. 10.06.2019.
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Personality and economic choices
Boyce CJ, Czajkowski M & Hanley N (2019) Personality and economic choices. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 94, pp. 82-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2018.12.004
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Hounkpatin HO, Boyce CJ, Dunn G & Wood AM (2018) Modeling bivariate change in individual differences: Prospective associations between personality and life satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115 (6), pp. 12-29. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000161
Newspaper / Magazine
Why I quit my day job researching happiness and started cycling to Bhutan
Boyce CJ (2018) Why I quit my day job researching happiness and started cycling to Bhutan. The Conversation. 16.11.2018.
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Boyce CJ, Delaney L, Ferguson E & Wood AM (2018) Central bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: Evidence from the UK. Journal of Affective Disorders, 234, pp. 311-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.03.003
Newspaper / Magazine
An interest rate rise may put thousands at risk of mental health problems
Boyce CJ (2018) An interest rate rise may put thousands at risk of mental health problems. The Conversation. 09.05.2018. https://theconversation.com/an-interest-rate-rise-may-put-thousands-at-risk-of-mental-health-problems-96300
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Sad or Happy? The Effects of Emotions on Stated Preferences for Environmental Goods
Hanley N, Boyce CJ, Czajkowski M, Tucker S, Noussair C & Townsend M (2017) Sad or Happy? The Effects of Emotions on Stated Preferences for Environmental Goods. Environmental and Resource Economics, 68 (4), pp. 821-846. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-016-0048-9
Book Chapter
Wood AM & Boyce CJ (2017) Developing, evaluating, and using subjective scales of personality, preferences, and well-being: A guide to psychometrics for psychologists and economists. In: Ranyard R (ed.) Economic psychology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 88-104. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111892634X.html
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Boyce CJ, Wood AM, Delaney L & Ferguson E (2017) How do personality and social structures interact with each other to predict important life outcomes? The importance of accounting for personality change. European Journal of Personality, 31 (3), pp. 279-290. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2099
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Adolescent Conscientiousness Predicts Lower Lifetime Unemployment
Egan M, Daly M, Delaney L, Boyce CJ & Wood AM (2017) Adolescent Conscientiousness Predicts Lower Lifetime Unemployment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102 (4), pp. 700-709. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000167
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Money may buy happiness, but often so little that it doesn’t matter
Boyce CJ, Daly M, Hounkpatin HO & Wood AM (2017) Money may buy happiness, but often so little that it doesn’t matter. Psychological Science, 28 (4), pp. 544-546. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616672271
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Boyce CJ, Wood AM & Ferguson E (2016) For better or for worse: The moderating effects of personality on the marriage-life satisfaction link. Personality and Individual Differences, 97, pp. 61-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.005
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Boyce CJ, Wood AM & Ferguson E (2016) Individual Differences in Loss Aversion: Conscientiousness Predicts How Life Satisfaction Responds to Losses Versus Gains in Income. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42 (4), pp. 471-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216634060
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Personality change following unemployment
Boyce CJ, Wood AM, Daly M & Sedikides C (2015) Personality change following unemployment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100 (4), pp. 991-1011. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038647
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Hounkpatin HO, Wood AM, Boyce CJ & Dunn G (2015) An Existential-Humanistic View of Personality Change: Co-Occurring Changes with Psychological Well-Being in a 10 Year Cohort Study. Social Indicators Research, 121 (2), pp. 455-470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0648-0
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A Social Rank Explanation of How Money Influences Health
Daly M, Boyce CJ & Wood AM (2015) A Social Rank Explanation of How Money Influences Health. Health Psychology, 34 (3), pp. 222-230. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000098
Book Chapter
Wood AM & Boyce CJ (2014) Personality, an Overview. In: Michalos A (ed.) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. New York, USA: Springer, pp. 4773-4775. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2152
Newspaper / Magazine
However you spend it, money isn't the key to happiness
Boyce CJ (2014) However you spend it, money isn't the key to happiness. The Conversation. 04.04.2014. https://theconversation.com/however-you-spend-it-money-isnt-the-key-to-happiness-25289
Article
Boyce CJ, Wood AM, Banks J, Clark AE & Brown GDA (2013) Money, Well-Being, and Loss Aversion: Does an Income Loss Have a Greater Effect on Well-Being Than an Equivalent Income Gain?. Psychological Science, 24 (12), pp. 2557-2562. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613496436
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Boyce CJ, Wood AM & Powdthavee N (2013) Is personality fixed? Personality changes as much as "variable" economic factors and more strongly predicts changes to life satisfaction. Social Indicators Research, 111 (1), pp. 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-012-0006-z
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Do people become healthier after being promoted?
Boyce CJ & Oswald AJ (2012) Do people become healthier after being promoted?. Health Economics, 21 (5), pp. 580-596. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1734
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Wood AM, Boyce CJ, Moore SC & Brown GDA (2012) An evolutionary based social rank explanation of why low income predicts mental distress: A 17 year cohort study of 30,000 people. Journal of Affective Disorders, 136 (3), pp. 882-888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2011.09.014
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Boyce CJ & Wood AM (2011) Personality prior to disability determines adaptation: Agreeable individuals recover lost life satisfaction faster and more completely. Psychological Science, 22 (11), pp. 1397-1402. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611421790
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Boyce CJ & Wood AM (2011) Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 78 (1-2), pp. 183-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.01.004
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Boyce CJ & Wood AM (2010) Money or mental health: The cost of alleviating psychological distress with monetary compensation versus psychological therapy. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 5 (4), pp. 509-516. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133109990326
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Boyce CJ, Wood AM & Brown GDA (2010) The dark side of conscientiousness: Conscientious people experience greater drops in life satisfaction following unemployment. Journal of Research in Personality, 44 (4), pp. 535-539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2010.05.001
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Money and happiness: Rank of income, not income, affects life satisfaction
Boyce CJ, Brown GDA & Moore SC (2010) Money and happiness: Rank of income, not income, affects life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 21 (4), pp. 471-475. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610362671
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Understanding fixed effects in human well-being
Boyce CJ (2010) Understanding fixed effects in human well-being. Journal of Economic Psychology, 31 (1), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2009.08.009