Articles: The Mindful Birth
By Jill Suttie | August 27, 2012A new book argues that mindfulness can help women (and their partners) navigate pregnancy and childbirth.
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Articles: Four Ways to Encourage Kindness in Students
By Vicki Zakrzewski | August 20, 2012Back-to-school tips: Research-based steps teachers can take to prime their students for kindness.
Articles: We’re Launching Our New Education Program…
By Vicki Zakrzewski | August 16, 2012... and introducing our new Education Director, Vicki Zakrzewski.
Raising Happiness: How to Raise an Olympic Athlete
By Christine Carter | August 13, 2012Athletic success can be influenced by parenting
Articles: Being Kind Makes Kids Happy
By Delia Fuhrmann | August 1, 2012A new study is the first to show that kids get a happiness boost from sacrificing for others, suggesting our strong inclinations for altruism.
Articles: The Compassionate Species
By Dacher Keltner | July 31, 2012The vulnerability of our children transformed human relationships, argues Dacher Keltner, and made compassion essential to our survival.
Articles: Can Science Make Facebook More Compassionate?
By Jason Marsh | July 25, 2012Facebook is confronting cyberbullying and online conflict. Can a team of researchers help boost kindness among the site's 900 million users?
Articles: Educating for Empathy
By Stacey Kennelly | July 18, 2012More and more educators are helping kids develop empathy—and a recent contest highlights some of the most inspiring projects.
Articles: Five Simple Tricks for Healthier Eating
By Amie M. Gordon | June 26, 2012Trying to make healthier food choices for you and your family? Psychology can help.
Articles: How to Really Read Racist Books to Your Kids
By Jeremy Adam Smith | June 22, 2012A recent New York Times column suggests we have no choice but to ignore or excise racist imagery in children's books. But Jeremy Adam Smith offers another way, guided by research.
Articles: What Motivates Kids to Help Others?
By Stacey Kennelly | June 19, 2012A new study suggests even toddlers are motivated by compassion rather than the desire to get credit for good deeds.
Articles: Four Steps to Father-Friendly Community Institutions
By William Marsiglio, Kevin M. Roy | June 14, 2012Schools, hospitals, and nonprofits sometimes do a poor job of engaging fathers. But two researchers say that can change with four simple steps.
Articles: Does Playing Music Boost Kids’ Empathy?
By Stacey Kennelly | June 8, 2012A new study suggests it does, at least when practiced in a group.
Articles: Are Married People Happier?
By Stacey Kennelly | June 6, 2012A new study suggests that getting hitched is good for our happiness.
Articles: Can Supportive Moms Enhance Your Brain?
By Wendy Durst | May 9, 2012A recent study offers striking evidence of how nurturing parenting early in a child’s life promotes their healthy development.
Articles: Lessons in Creativity from Caine’s Arcade
By Jason Marsh | May 1, 2012The latest viral video sensation is more than a portrait of a cute and creative kid. It's a guide to how we can nurture kids' imagination.
Articles: Toward a More Mindful Nation
By Tim Ryan | April 25, 2012Economic insecurity. A broken health care system. Youth violence. Congressman Tim Ryan explains how mindfulness can help.
Raising Happiness: The Stuck-at-Home Generation
By Christine Carter | April 9, 2012Are we raising kids who won’t leave the nest?
Articles: Do Babies Know What’s Fair?
By Bernie Wong | March 20, 2012A new study suggests they do, even before they’re two years old.
Articles: A Guide to Your Child’s Brain
By Diana Divecha | February 15, 2012A review of Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson's The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind.
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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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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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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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"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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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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