Dr Chris Boyce
Research Fellow
Biography
Chris Boyce is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester. Chris graduated from the University of Surrey with a First Class honours degree in economics. He then moved to the University of Warwick to complete an MSc in Economics. At Warwick he then turned to psychology, where he completed his PhD. After his PhD he held a postion as a Research Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris School of Economics). His current research remains primarily within the field of economics but draws on ideas from psychology. Specifically he is concerned with understanding how life events influence an individual's health and happiness.
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- MSc Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- BSc Economics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Publications
2011
- Boyce, C. & Wood, A (2011). Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 78, 183-191. eScholarID:131165 | DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.01.004
2010
- Boyce, C (2010). Understanding fixed effects in human well-being. Journal of Economic Psychology, 31(1), 1-16. eScholarID:131167 | DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2009.08.009
- Boyce, C. & Wood, A (2010). Money or mental health: The cost of alleviating psychological distress with monetary compensation versus psychological therapy. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 5, 509-516. eScholarID:131161 | DOI:10.1017/S1744133109990326
- Boyce, C., Brown, G. & Moore, S (2010). Money and happiness: Rank of income, not income, affects life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 21, 471-475. eScholarID:131163 | DOI:10.1177/0956797610362671
- Boyce, C., Wood, A. & Brown, G (2010). The dark side of conscientiousness: Conscientious people experience greater drops in life satisfaction following unemployment. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 535-539. eScholarID:131166 | DOI:DOI 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.05.001
- Boyce, C. & Oswald, A (In-press). Do people become healthier after being promoted? Health Economics, eScholarID:131162
- Boyce, C. & Wood, A (In-press). Personality prior to disability determines adaptation: Agreeable individuals recover lost life satisfaction faster and more completely. Psychological Science, eScholarID:131164
- Wood, A., Boyce, C., Moore, S. & Brown, G (In-press). 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, eScholarID:131160