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Jill Suttie
Jill Suttie, Psy.D., is Greater Good‘s book review editor and a frequent contributor to the magazine.
Stories by Jill Suttie
Articles: Smarts and Stamina
By Jill Suttie | January 12, 2012A new book provides 50 tips to help busy people improve their health, one step at a time.
Articles: Beyond Drugs: Health as a Path to Happiness
By Jill Suttie | December 21, 2011Andrew Weil's new book, Spontaneous Happiness, contains important advice. But are his suggestions supported by research?
Articles: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time
By Jill Suttie | November 26, 2011Jill Suttie reviews the new book from Buddha's Brain author Rick Hanson.
Articles: Urban Evolution
By Jill Suttie | November 4, 2011A review of David Sloan Wilson's The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time.
Articles: Connecting through “Collaborative Consumption”
By Jill Suttie, Rachel Botsman, Lauren Anderson | October 6, 2011A new movement helps people save money and make friends. Could it help build a more cooperative society along the way?
Articles: Does SEL Make the Grade?
By Jill Suttie | September 20, 2011Fueled by new research, the social-emotional learning movement is building momentum. Is it enough to make American schools change their course?
Articles: From Our Bookshelf: Trusting Relationships, Caring for the Caregivers
By Jill Suttie | September 8, 2011A round-up of recent books: The Science of Trust, The Comfort Garden, and Applied Positive Psychology.
Articles: A Course Correction for Positive Psychology
By Jill Suttie | August 11, 2011A review of Martin Seligman’s latest book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being.
Articles: Social Science, with a Touch of Snark
By Jill Suttie | July 13, 2011Greater Good’s book review editor examines The Social Animal, by David Brooks.
Articles: From Evil to Empathy
By Jill Suttie | June 7, 2011A review of The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty.
Articles: Our Brains, Ourselves
By Jill Suttie | May 27, 2011A review of The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human
Articles: Feel Like You’re Too Busy to Breathe? Here’s Some Help
By Jill Suttie | May 3, 2011Two new books try to help us cultivate mindfulness, even in trying circumstances.
Articles: From Our Bookshelf: Changing the World, and Ourselves
By Jill Suttie | April 7, 2011A round-up of recent books: Join the Club and The Worry Solution.
Articles: A Call to Compassion
By Jill Suttie | March 10, 2011A review of Karen Armstrong's 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life.
Articles: 5 Ways Giving Is Good for You
By Jill Suttie, Jason Marsh | December 13, 2010Jason Marsh and Jill Suttie offer added incentives to get into the holiday spirit.
Articles: What Are You Grateful For?
By Jill Suttie | November 22, 2010Some of today's leading artists share their gratitude lists. What's on yours?
Articles: Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Kids
By Jill Suttie | October 12, 2010In one troubled city, researchers and community members are working together to boost altruism among adolescents. What can their project teach other communities facing hard times?
Articles: Two New Mindfulness Books
By Jill Suttie | October 4, 2010A review of Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness and The Mindful Child
Articles: The Politics of Empathy
By Jill Suttie | June 17, 2010Recent books bring empathy out of the lab and into policy debates
Articles: Positive Psychologize Me
By Jill Suttie | June 7, 2010A review of 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life and The Happiness Project
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Five Ways Giving Thanks Can Backfire
April 29, 2013Most of the time, gratitude is good. But research finds that there are situations when "thank you" may be the wrong response.
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How Gratitude Can Help You Through Hard Times
May 13, 2013It's easy to feel grateful when life is good, says Robert Emmons. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
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Six Tips for Making the Leap to Meaningful Work
May 15, 2013Job satisfaction is at record lows. What does it take to overcome the fear of change, especially in tough economic times?
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How to Think LIke Sherlock Holmes
May 24, 2013These two books give us insights into how brain science can help us understand our nature, improve our lives, and help us empathize with those who may have memory lapses.
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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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2nd International Conference on Positive Psychology: “Giving Hope – Giving Future”
May 22, 2013
Greater Good Events
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...
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