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Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., is the executive editor of Greater Good, the founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and a co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness.
Stories by Dacher Keltner
Articles: The Compassionate Species
By Dacher Keltner | July 31, 2012The vulnerability of our children transformed human relationships, argues Dacher Keltner, and made compassion essential to our survival.
Videos and Podcasts: The Evolutionary Roots of Compassion
By Dacher Keltner | July 30, 2012Dacher Keltner explains why Darwin thought compassion is humans’ strongest instinct.
Videos and Podcasts: Secrets of the Vagus Nerve
By Dacher Keltner | July 30, 2012Dacher Keltner shares his research on the vagus nerve, a key nexus of mind and body and a biological building block of human compassion.
Videos and Podcasts: Dacher Keltner on the Evolutionary Roots of Compassion
By Dacher Keltner | July 27, 2012The GGSC’s faculty director explains new discoveries revealing the evolutionary roots of human compassion.
Articles: Generation Wii… or Generation We?
By Dacher Keltner | May 22, 2012In this commencement address, Dacher Keltner asks today's graduates to look for the best in themselves and in humanity.
Videos and Podcasts: Teach Compassion: Dacher Keltner
By Dacher Keltner | June 11, 2011The founding director of the Greater Good Science Center explains how humans are wired for compassion.
Presented as part of the TEDxGoldenGateED event on June 11, 2011.
Articles: Hands On Research: The Science of Touch
By Dacher Keltner | September 29, 2010Dacher Keltner explains how compassion is literally at our fingertips.
Videos and Podcasts: Dacher Keltner on Touch
By Dacher Keltner | September 29, 2010Dacher Keltner shares insights from the new science of touch: compassionate communication, touch therapies, and proof that “to touch is to give life.”
Articles: Born to Blush
By Dacher Keltner | May 1, 2009Dacher Keltner reveals why embarrassment is good for all of us
Articles: From the Editors: Summer 2008
By Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh | Summer 2008Are we really living in a “post-racial” America?
Articles: From the Editors: Spring 08
By Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith | Spring 2008Articles: The Power Paradox
By Dacher Keltner | Winter 2007-08True power requires modesty and empathy, not force and coercion, argues Dacher Keltner. But what people want from leaders—social intelligence—is what is damaged by the experience of power.
Articles: Body Language
By Dacher Keltner | Winter 2007-08Dacher Keltner reveals the stories behind everyday gestures.
Articles: Body Language
By Dacher Keltner | Summer 2007Dacher Keltner reveals the science behind everyday gestures
Articles: From The Editors: Fall/Winter 2006-07
By Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh | Fall/Winter 2006-07
Articles: We Are All Bystanders
By Jason Marsh, Dacher Keltner | Fall/Winter 2006-07But we don’t have to be. Dacher Keltner and Jason Marsh explain why we sometimes shackle our moral instincts, and how we can set them free.
Most...
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Seven Paths to a Meaningful Life
May 28, 2013A giant in the field of social psychology draws on five decades of teaching and research to reveal the secrets of a fulfilling life to today's graduating seniors.
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How to Train the Compassionate Brain
May 23, 2013A new study finds that training in compassion makes us more altruistic—and explores the neuroscience behind why.
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Five Reasons Why It’s a Good Time to be a Dad
June 12, 2013Feeling fed up and burned out, Dad? That may be a sign of progress, says Jeremy Adam Smith.
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How the Mind Can Heal the Heart
June 19, 2013Tara Bennett-Goleman and Daniel Goleman explain the science behind "mind whispering"—a technique for overcoming self-defeating habits of mind.
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How to Make Giving Feel Good
June 18, 2013Studies show giving makes people happy, and happiness makes people give--but not always. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton offer three ways to help people feel good about giving.
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Rethinking Family Meetings
June 17, 2013
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WatchGreater Good Resources
"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...
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