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Tag: Awe
Tag: Awe
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Articles: An Awesome Way to Make Kids Less Self-Absorbed
By Vicki Zakrzewski | November 28, 2012Research suggests that experiencing awe helps kids focus less on themselves and more on the world around them.
Articles: Can Awe Buy You More Time and Happiness?
By Stacey Kennelly | August 17, 2012A study shows feeling awe can make people feel like they have more time, and might make them more likely to help others.
Raising Happiness: The Foundation of Happiness
By Christine Carter | November 21, 2011My favorite gratitude practices.
Videos and Podcasts: Paul Bloom on Sex, George Clooney, and Other Pleasures
By The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | August 10, 2011The author of How Pleasure Works explains why we do good and how to find true happiness.
Articles: Sex, George Clooney, and the Meaning of Life
By Michael Bergeisen | August 10, 2011Paul Bloom discusses how the psychology of pleasure can explain what we like and why we do good--part of Greater Good's podcast series.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Strategies for Feeling Good After You’ve Felt Bad
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 11, 2011Christine's list of go-to feel-better tactics.
Videos and Podcasts: Strategies for Feeling Good After You’ve Felt Bad
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 11, 2011Rona and I continue the conversation from last week about difficult emotions, but this week is focused on recovery. Part 2 of a 2 part series.
Raising Happiness: Watching the Crisis in Japan: Feeling Good While Others Suffer
By Christine Carter | March 23, 2011Compassion is a positive emotion—just like happiness.
Articles: Dacher Keltner on BloggingheadsTV with Robert Wright
By Jason Marsh | January 15, 2011Greater Good's executive editor discusses the science of touch, awe, oxytocin, and more.
Videos and Podcasts: Awe and Gratitude
By Robert Emmons | November 1, 2010Robert Emmons explains why he believes awe and gratitude are intertwined.
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When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
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2nd International Conference on Positive Psychology: “Giving Hope – Giving Future”
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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.
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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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