Links to articles and webcasts where the Greater Good Science Center, Greater Good magazine, or the GGSC staff and faculty are featured.
The Greater Good Science Center is dedicated to building connections with the community beyond UC Berkeley. By sponsoring public lectures and participating in public symposia we encourage dialogue about the importance of promoting positive emotions and relationships in classrooms, in families, and in our communities at large.
August 2007: The Berkeley Cybersalon; here's a link to the recording of the GGSC event that took place on August 19, 2007 at the Hillside Club.
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July 2007: Greater Good Science Center founder and research director Dr. Dacher Keltner presenting Wired to be Good: What the new science of social intelligence tells us about human goodness, a lecture he gave to the Wheeler Society at UC Berkeley.
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March 2007: A panel discussion to celebrate the Fall/Winter 2006-07 issue of Greater Good features the magazine's editors and contributors, including legendary psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Experiment) and New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer Ted Jackson. They discuss "the psychology of the bystander" and consider the role of reporters as active interveners versus bystanders in the stories they cover.
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September 2006: Greater Good Science Center founder and research director Dacher Keltner spoke on Happiness and Stress as Determinants of Mental Health (morning session) at the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education.
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January 2006: A discussion of the Fall/Winter 2005-06 issue of Greater Good, which featured a series of essays on empathy. Several of the issue’s contributors discussed their articles, including noted sociologist Arlie Hochschild who argued that social and political factors are inhibiting the expression of empathy in America today. Hochschild was joined by Philip and Carolyn Cowan who outlined their extensive research on the role of empathy in romantic relationships.
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May 2004: What does inequality have to do with empathy? Robert Reich delivered a public lecture, "Social Justice and Social Empathy: Where Did They Go? How Can We Regain Them?" sponsored by The Greater Good Science Center on the UC-Berkeley campus. Reich, a former labor secretary in the Clinton administration and a distinguished visiting professor at Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, engaged the overflowing audience in a lively discussion of how rising inequality and frayed social bonds. He also shared his thoughts on the role of a renewed form of public leadership to remind people of their responsibilities to one another.
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November 2003: Getting the Word Out: Peace and Well-being in the Classroom.
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May 2003: Symposium on Equality, Hierarchy and Social Class.
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May 2002: Symposium on Children Who Thrive in the Face of Anarchy.
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