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 ...
Support for Coming Out
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 | Tags: Prejudice, happiness, social exclusion, social integration | 1 Comment »As anyone who saw last year’s Milk knows, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to hold a major public office in the United States, and he used his position to passionately urge gays and lesbians to come out ...
University Diversity
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | Tags: Education, Prejudice, conflict resolution, prosocial behavior, psychology, social connections, social exclusion, social integration | Leave a Comment »The New York Times reports today on new research suggesting that having a roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice among college students. The article, by Tamar Lewin, highlights several recent studies showing that a dose of ethnic diversity in ...
Better Together: A review of The Lonely American
Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | Tags: Uncategorized, aging, happiness, health, nature, prosocial behavior, social connections, social exclusion, social integration | Leave a Comment »“Americans in the twenty-first century devote more technology to staying connected than any society in history, yet somehow the devices fail us: Studies show that we feel increasingly alone.” So begins the new book The Lonely American, by psychiatrists Jacqueline Olds ...
Community = Happiness?
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 | Tags: Jen ratio, cooperation, emotional literacy, empathy, family, happiness, prosocial behavior, self-transcendance, social capital, social connections, social exclusion | Leave a Comment »Dick Meyer, NPR's new editorial director of digital media, has authored a new book, Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. In it he rails against how our consumer culture has overemphasized the role and importance ...
Dads and Social Capital
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 | Tags: children, cooperation, family, helping behavior, parenting, prosocial behavior, social connections, social exclusion, social integration | Leave a Comment »Over at the blog Daddy Dialectic, my esteemed colleague "Chicago Pop" meditates on the relationship between caregiving dads and social capital: Is it worth the time for a dad to get involved with a playground clique of mostly moms?The ...
Social Exclusion Decreases Prosocial Behavior
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | Tags: empathy, helping behavior, prosocial behavior, social exclusion | 1 Comment »When I think back to the social drama of high school— cold scowls of indifference, deflecting insults with nervous laughter, the dizziness I felt when an old friend abandoned me—I can still feel the kind of paralysis it induced then. ...
