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Jeremy Adam Smith
Jeremy Adam Smith is Web Editor of the Greater Good Science Center and a 2013 fellow with the Institute for Justice and Journalism. He is also the author or coeditor of four books, including The Daddy Shift, Rad Dad, and The Compassionate Instinct. Before joining the GGSC, he was a 2010-11 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. You can follow him on Twitter!
Stories by Jeremy Adam Smith
Articles: Five Reasons Why It’s a Good Time to be a Dad
By Jeremy Adam Smith | June 12, 2013Feeling fed up and burned out, Dad? That may be a sign of progress, says Jeremy Adam Smith.
Articles: Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
By Jeremy Adam Smith | May 16, 2013Americans are less likely to say "thanks" on the job than anywhere else, which hurts productivity and happiness. That needs to change.
Articles: Three Things Immigrant Families Can Teach All Americans
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 10, 2013Jeremy Adam Smith reports on new findings in family research, with a special focus on immigrants.
Articles: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part Two
By Jeremy Adam Smith | March 28, 2013Jeremy Adam Smith offers five more tips to help men find a happy fit between paid work and family responsibilities.
Articles: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
By Jeremy Adam Smith | 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.
Articles: Five Life Lessons from “56 Up”
By Jeremy Adam Smith | March 9, 2013The "Up" documentaries have followed 14 people from ages seven to 56—and in the process illustrated recent discoveries about the science of a meaningful life.
Articles: How Love Grows in Your Body
By Jeremy Adam Smith | February 7, 2013Here are the places where romantic love abides in our bodies—and the role each one plays in sustaining love over time.
Articles: Our 10 Most Popular Articles in 2012—and 15 More You Might Like!
By Jeremy Adam Smith | January 7, 2013We round up the most-read Greater Good articles from the past year—and point to 15 more you ought to consider reading.
Articles: Seven Inspiring Images from 2012
By Jeremy Adam Smith | December 28, 2012Need some elevation? We remember acts of heroism, altruism, compassion, joy, and forgiveness from the past year.
Articles: Our Ten Favorite Books of 2012
By Jill Suttie, Vicki Zakrzewski, Jeremy Adam Smith, Jason Marsh | December 26, 2012Greater Good's editors pick ten of the most thought-provoking, important, useful, or moving nonfiction books we read this year.
Articles: Four Reminders of Human Strength and Goodness after Sandy Hook
By Jeremy Adam Smith | December 17, 2012Are people horrible? It's a question many Americans are asking ourselves after the horror of a school shooting.
Articles: Our Children, Our Strangers
By Jeremy Adam Smith | December 3, 2012A new book explores extreme differences between parents and children—and in so doing, reveals how we can all find empathy, resilience, and meaning in life's most difficult experiences.
Articles: Gratitude Research: Why Bother?
By Jeremy Adam Smith | November 19, 2012Critics say gratitude is unworthy of scientific study, and shouldn't be promoted in schools. We disagree!
Articles: Should Women Thank Men for Doing the Dishes?
By Jeremy Adam Smith | July 5, 2012Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Having it All” essay in this month's The Atlantic raises important questions about men, women... and gratitude.
Articles: How to Really Read Racist Books to Your Kids
By Jeremy Adam Smith | June 22, 2012A recent New York Times column suggests we have no choice but to ignore or excise racist imagery in children's books. But Jeremy Adam Smith offers another way, guided by research.
Articles: What We Google When We Google Love
By Jeremy Adam Smith | June 19, 2012Internet searches for positive emotions and behaviors are increasing; searches for negative emotions are staying flat. We don't know why, but we know people are searching for what's good in humanity.
Articles: Three Lessons from Mitt Romney about Bullying
By Jeremy Adam Smith | May 14, 2012Mitt Romney stands accused of homophobic bullying in high school. But what positive lessons can we draw from the story?
Articles: Five Lessons in Human Goodness from “The Hunger Games”
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 18, 2012The plot of the new film sounds cynical. But it reveals a surprising amount about the science of human goodness.
Articles: Bully: The Movie Every Teacher and Student Needs to See
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 18, 2012The new documentary Bully tells the stories of five bullied kids—and says what we can do to help them.
Articles: How to Foster Group Creativity
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 11, 2012In the second of a two-part conversation, Imagine author Jonah Lehrer explains how science can help teams become more creative.
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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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"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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