Articles: Beyond the Comfort Zone
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Articles: Born to Love
By Helen Fisher | February 1, 2010Our body equips us with some natural and powerful aphrodisiacs, writes Helen Fisher, along with the tools to make romance last.
Articles: Is There a Happiness Gender Gap?
By Jill Suttie | December 1, 2009Research suggests women today are unhappier than they've been in four decades, reports Jill Suttie. Why is that, and what can we do about it?
Articles: The Daddy Brain
By Jeremy Adam Smith | June 1, 2009Moms aren't the only ones whose bodies change after having a baby. Jeremy Adam Smith reveals the new science of fatherhood.
Articles: Surviving Betrayal
By Joshua Coleman | Fall 2008Romantic betrayal is traumatizing, says psychologist Joshua Coleman. But couples can learn to trust again.
Articles: The Mindful Birth
By Emilie Raguso | Summer 2008A new program is applying mindfulness meditation to childbirth and parenting. Could it lead to healthier babies?
Articles: Book Review: Forgive For love
By Meera Lee Sethi | Spring 2008Forgive For love: The missing ingredient for a healthy and lasting relationship
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Articles: The Postpartum Brain
By Anna Abramson, Dawn Rouse | Spring 2008New research casts light on the depression and troubling thoughts many mothers experience after childbirth. And it may help erase some of the stigma they feel says Anna J. Abramson
Articles: Honesty and Respect
By Claude M. Steiner | Winter 2007-08Couples often struggle over sex and intimacy, but Claude M. Steiner offers a path to more satisfying relationships.
Articles: New Americans, New Families
By Thomas Schofield, Scott Coltrane, Ross D. Parke | Fall 2007At a time when people are lamenting the death of the American family, Ross D. Parke, Scott Coltrane, and Thomas Schofield discovered that many of its ideals are alive and well—and they’re being imported from Mexico.
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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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World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
May 21, 2013A Q&A with visionary educator John Hunter, creator of the World Peace Game.
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Can You Run Out of Empathy?
May 20, 2013An essay in this week’s New Yorker argues that we don't have enough empathy to go around. But new research says we can keep renewing and expanding our feeling for others.
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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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...
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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...
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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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