Turn Up the Red
Friday, October 9th, 2009 | Tags: Dacher Keltner, morality, social connections, social exclusion | 3 Comments »Most people try to hide their blushes when they’re embarrassed. Some have even gone so far as to undergo a surgical procedure that prevents their face from blushing. But new research suggests that rather than being something we should cover ...
How Good Are You?
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 | Tags: Prejudice, altruism, compassion, empathy, goodness, morality, prosocial behavior, psychology, social intelligence | Leave a Comment »The folks at the Utne Reader asked me to contribute to their "Alt Wire," billed as "a morning digest of links and information collected and explained by a different guest blogger every weekday." So today, I wrote this post, listing ...
Paul Ekman-Dalai Lama book event
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Tags: compassion, emotional intelligence, emotional literacy, empathy, events, goodness, happiness, human nature, morality, neuroscience, prosocial behavior, psychology, religion | Leave a Comment »On October 22, Greater Good magazine and the Greater Good Science Center will be hosting a special event with world-renowned psychologist Paul Ekman. Ekman, a Greater Good editorial board member, recently published Emotional Awareness, an extended conversation between himself and ...
God may be good, but do we need God to be good?
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 | Tags: Uncategorized, altruism, cooperation, money, morality, prosocial behavior, religion | 1 Comment »For a year now, an off-and-on debate has raged over at my other blog, Daddy Dialectic, about raising kids without religion. We're a pretty atheistic and philosophically materialist lot over there at Daddy Dialectic, and so most contributors have tended to ...
Moral Intuition
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 | Tags: altruism, evolution, morality, politics, prosocial behavior | Leave a Comment »The New York Times reported yesterday on some of Jonathan Haidt's work on the evolutionary roots of human morality. Haidt, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, wrote about some of his research in the Spring/Summer 2005 issue of Greater ...
Moral Monkeys
Monday, February 5th, 2007 | Tags: morality, religion | Leave a Comment »From today's Boston Globe:Morality, [Marc Hauser] argues, is influenced by cultural teachings but is also so deep and universal an aspect of human existence that it is effectively "hard-wired" into the brain, much like the instinct for language...A psychologist, evolutionary ...
