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Greater Good Science Center
University of California, Berkeley
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013
Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013
A 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.
When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013
A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.

Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
March 21, 2013
New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
‘Free the Mind’ film
May 17, 2013
Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
May 17, 2013
A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.

Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013
Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013
A 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.
When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013
A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.

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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
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”...

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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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Why We Cooperate By Michael Tomasello 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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