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Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman, Ph.D., is the world’s foremost expert on facial expressions and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He is the author of 15 books, including, most recently, Emotional Awareness, a conversation between himself and the Dalai Lama (reviewed on page 46). He is also a member of Greater Good’s editorial board.
Stories by Paul Ekman
Articles: Paul Ekman’s Taxonomy of Compassion
By Paul Ekman | June 21, 2010The renowned psychologist offers a lesson in emotional intelligence.
Videos and Podcasts: Darwin and the Dalai Lama, United by Compassion
By Paul Ekman | June 17, 2010Paul Ekman reveals the link between Darwin’s and the Dalai Lama’s views on compassion.
Videos and Podcasts: Heroic Compassion & Altruism
By Paul Ekman | June 17, 2010Paul Ekman explores how and why certain people help others even when it puts themselves at risk.
Videos and Podcasts: Global Compassion
By Paul Ekman | June 17, 2010Paul Ekman discusses the importance of extending compassion to people of different nations, and even to all living beings.
Videos and Podcasts: The Roots of Empathy and Compassion
By Paul Ekman | June 17, 2010Paul Ekman describes the building blocks of empathy and compassion: emotion recognition, emotional resonance, and familial compassion.
Videos and Podcasts: The Dalai Lama is a Darwinian
By Paul Ekman | June 17, 2010Paul Ekman explains that Darwin and the Dalai Lama share a similar view on humanity’s highest moral virtue: to extend compassion to “all sentient beings.”
Videos and Podcasts: Compassion vs. Emotions
By Paul Ekman | June 17, 2010Paul Ekman discusses the difference between forms of compassion and emotional states.
Videos and Podcasts: Paul Ekman on Darwin, Compassion, and the Dalai Lama
By Paul Ekman | June 17, 2010Paul Ekman reveals the similarities between Darwin’s and the Dalai Lama’s ideas about compassion, and discusses the need to promote a “global compassion”—before it’s too late.
Articles: Global Compassion
By Paul Ekman | Winter 2009A conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman
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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
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Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
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Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence
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