Spring 2004 (Volume I, Issue 1)
Compassion in Action
The inaugural (Spring 2004) issue of Greater Good features a symposium on the subject of compassion. Contributors, ranging from psychology researchers to grade school teachers, present some of the latest research on compassionate people, marriages, and classrooms, and provide inspiring stories of compassion in action. The issue also includes an interview with former Illinois Governor George Ryan about how (and whether) compassion affects politicians’ attitudes toward the death penalty.
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In Brief
Q&A
A Change of Heart (05)
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004An interview with former Illinois Governor George Ryan
by Jason Marsh
Features
The Compassionate Instinct (06)
By Dacher Keltner | Spring 2004Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.
Connecting through Compassion (07)
By Charles Garfield | Spring 2004For three decades Charles Garfield has trained volunteers to care compassionately for strangers. He shares what he’s learned about the extraordinary deeds of ordinary people.
A Curriculum of Care (10)
By Marilyn Watson | Spring 2004Students achieve more once they’ve learned to care for themselves and others, says Marilyn Watson. She’s done the research to prove this—and witnessed the positive results.
To Know You Is To Love You (13)
By Lisa A. Neff, Benjamin R. Karney | Spring 2004Marriage researchers Benjamin R. Karney and Lisa A. Neff have found that compassionate spouses have longer, more supportive marriages. But to be a compassionate spouse, you need more than love.
In Search of the Moral Voice (14)
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004What makes some people display altruism and compassion in the midst of war? Two researchers are trying to find out.
It’s a Family Thing (15)
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004La Bodega de la Familia delivers a different kind of justice
The Power of Performance (16)
By Elizabeth O’Brien | Spring 2004City at Peace’s teenage cast members write and star in their own original musical. But it’s never just about the show.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Destructive Emotions (17)
By Elizabeth Cushing Payne | Spring 2004by Daniel Goleman
Bantam Books, 2003, 432 pages
Book Review: Do Unto Others (18)
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004by Samuel P. Oliner
Westview Press, 2003, 288 pages
Book Review: Flourishing (19)
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004Edited by Corey L. M. Keyes and Jonathan Haidt
American Psychological Association, 2003, 355 pages
Book Review: Kids Working It Out (20)
By Elizabeth Cushing Payne | Spring 2004Edited by Tricia S. Jones and Randy Compton
Jossey-Bass, 2003, 360 pages
Book Review: Happiness and Education (21)
By Elizabeth Cushing Payne | Spring 2004by Nel Noddings
Cambridge University Press, 2003, 308 pages
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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 Positive Emotions Improve Our Health
June 20, 2013A new study suggests why it is that good feelings benefit our bodies as well as our minds.
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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.
Greater Good Events
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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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