Gaming for Good
By Kyle Smith | June 1, 2010Can video games inspire altruism?
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Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
By Jason Marsh | May 17, 2013A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.
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The Happiness of Time Travel
By Laura Saslow, Kat Saxton, Aaron Shaw, Jason Marsh | May 28, 2010Summaries of new research on gratitude, "mental time travel," and happiness in the East vs. the West.
The Latest on Policing Bias
By Jason Marsh | May 27, 2010A task force finds evidence of unconscious racial bias among law enforcement--and makes recommendations to curb it.
Mindfulness Behind Bars
By Elizabeth Cohen | May 26, 2010Elizabeth Cohen has found that mindfulness can not only help reduce anger and aggression inside prison walls. It can give inmates skills they need for life after release.
Missed Signals
By Gregg Sparkman | May 24, 2010A new study reveals the hidden costs of cosmetic surgery.
Rigging Kids’ Brains for Happy Memories
By Christine Carter | May 24, 2010By putting neuroscience into action, we can help our children experience—and remember—more good times than bad.
Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
By Marc Bekoff | May 20, 2010Marc Bekoff explains that if we want to understand the roots of human goodness, we've got to look beyond humans.
Treating the Wounds of War
By Barbara L. Niles, Amy K. Silberbogen, Julie Klunk-Gillis | May 19, 2010How mindfulness is helping veterans adjust to life on the home front.
Why Mindfulness Matters
By Jason Marsh | May 17, 2010This month on Greater Good, experts explain the benefits of mindfulness--and how you can cultivate it.
Try This: Build Emotional Literacy
By Christine Carter | May 14, 2010This video from the Rachael Ray Show features Raising Happiness techniques for increasing gratitude, joy, and emotional intelligence in your household--while reducing sibling conflict and back-talk.
Mindful Education
By Patricia Jennings | May 13, 2010Patricia Jennings explains how new programs are bringing the benefits of mindfulness to the classroom.
More than a Feeling
By J.D. Trout | May 11, 2010J.D. Trout explains that to fight poverty, empathy isn't enough.
Why It Helps to Think Your Partner’s Hot
By Kat Saxton, Aaron Shaw, Erica Lee, Jason Marsh | May 7, 2010Short summaries of new research on satisfying relationships, the benefits of multiculturalism, and the positive effects of humor.
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
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How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013A new report finds that fitting work with family isn't just a women's issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.
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When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.
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Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
March 21, 2013New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
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Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
May 17, 2013A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
The GGSC’s six-day Summer Institute will equip educators with social-emotional learning tools that will benefit both students and teachers. Registration is now closed.
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"Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior"
Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
- "Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
- "From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
- Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
- Northeast Foundation for Children
Northeast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
- Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
Book of the Week
Why We Cooperate
Nature and nurture interact to inform, and reform, cooperative behavior. Infants and apes are both able to share, but only the two-year-old will pick up that thing you dropped in front of her.
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