How Power Corrupts
From The Atlantic Online | January 30, 2010"The Daily Dish" discusses how power corrupts with input from Dacher Keltner
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UC Berkeley Helps Facebook Be as Emotionally Rich as Possible
From SF Weekly | May 3, 2013Dacher Keltner, along with a team of others, creates more nuanced emoticons for Facebook.
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Born to Be Good
From Radio without Borders (part of Wisconsin Public Radio) | January 13, 2010Here on Earth, Radio Without Borders covers "The Compassionate Instinct"/"Born to Be Good"
Why We Give
From City Visions Radio, KALW | December 21, 2009A radio show on the science and psychology of altruism, including Greater Good's Jason Marsh
The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness
From The New York Times | November 24, 2009The Empathy Gene study
In Good We Trust: 19 Righteous Ideas for Rotten Times
From San Francisco | June 2009UC Berkeley professor Dacher Keltner and Standford neurosurgeon Jim Doty debunk traditional views on humans' violent nature and promote the influence of generosity.
Survival Of The Selfless?
From The Huffington Post | February 15, 2009Survival of the Selfless? A Review of The Compassionate Instinct
The Science of Human Goodness
From Tech Nation/IT Conversations | January 19, 2009Moira Gunn interviews D Keltner and J Marsh on The Compassionate Instinct
Cultivating Happiness
From San Francisco Chronicle Magazine | December 30, 2007The GGSC's work is featured in this San Francisco Chronicle Magazine cover story on the science of happiness.
Is a smile real or fake?
From CNN | November 15, 2007CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports that psychologists can tell how happy you are by reading your smile.
Sunday with Peter Laufer
From KPFA 94.1 | October 14, 2007, 9:00 AMTwo authors from the new issue of Greater Good magazine discuss the 21st Century Family.
New ‘positive change’ magazines thrive in fertile Bay Area soil
From San Francisco Chronicle | October 5, 2007Heidi Benson writes on the recent proliferation of positive change magazines in the Bay Area.
Youth Happiness
From KQED Radio | August 28, 2007, 10:00 AMIn light of a recent study, the program examines the complexities of what makes today's youth happy.
Just Between You and Me
From San Francisco Chronicle | July 29, 2007Alex Williams addresses the proliferation of emoticon use in regards to a professional environment.
The Rich Are More Oblivious Than You and Me
From The New York Times | April 4, 2007Richard Conniff writes on the correlation between wealth, power, and behavior.
A glance at the current issue of Greater Good: What makes a hero
From The Chronicle of Higher Education | February 13, 2007 Happinesss 101
From The New York Times | January 7, 2007D.T. Max writes on the growth of positive psychology, taking from professors that include Kashdan, Seligman, Fredrickson.
The Psychology of Power
From KQED Radio | December 11, 2006Greater Good Science Center Founder and Faculty Director Dacher Keltner is featured in this forum which takes a look at the psychology of power and its effect on our social and working lives.
Video Games Get Serious
From UTNE Reader | October 19, 2006A new type of video game sets its sights on world peace and sustainability.
Aesthetics 101
From UTNE Reader | July/August 2006Laine Bergeson talks about the lack of inspiration and the "public school experience" in modern day academics.
National Smiles
From The New York Times | December 11, 2005D.T. Max draws a distinction between American and English smiles.
The Greater Good on Campus
From Common Ground | May 2005 Berkeley: Nice folks finish last? Not so, according to new magazine Read more: http://www.sfgate.co
From SF Gate | March 4, 2005Rick DelVecchio writes on the Greater Good organization.
Event Calendar
Greater Good events put ideas into action. Check out our events calendar to see what we have coming up.
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
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How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013A 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.
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When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.
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2nd International Conference on Positive Psychology: “Giving Hope – Giving Future”
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Here’s How Much You Love Humanity
May 21, 2013Results from the Greater Good "Love of Humanity" quiz.
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World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
May 21, 2013A Q&A with visionary educator John Hunter, creator of the World Peace Game.
Greater Good Events
Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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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”...
- 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...
Book of the Week
Why We Cooperate
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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