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Articles: Five Steps to Happiness at Work
By Timothy Sharp | July 1, 2009Australian positive psychologist Timothy Sharp—otherwise known as "Dr. Happy"—asked 50 people a simple question: What do you consider to be the top three contributors to happiness at work? Their answers provide food for thought to managers and employees alike.
Raising Happiness: How to get kids to do boring (but necessary) tasks
By Christine Carter | April 29, 2009
Raising Happiness: Emotion Coaching: One of the Most Important Parenting Practices in the History of the Universe
By Christine Carter | March 19, 2009
Articles: Rubbing Off
By Allison Briscoe-Smith | Summer 2008Allison Briscoe-Smith explains how kids learn about race—and how their parents can foster tolerance.
Articles: Alien Kindness
By Alex Dixon | Spring 2008How can scientists beam altruism into outer space?
Articles: Honesty and Respect
By Claude M. Steiner | Winter 2007-08Couples often struggle over sex and intimacy, but Claude M. Steiner offers a path to more satisfying relationships.
Articles: Peaceful Parenting
By Sura Hart, Victoria Kindle Hodson | Winter 2007-08Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson explain how to turn parent-child conflict into cooperation.
Articles: Book Review: When Parents Hurt
By Jill Suttie | Winter 2007-08By Joshua Coleman
HarperCollins, 2007, 312 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 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.
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Rethinking Family Meetings
June 17, 2013
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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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
29 Gifts
Walker’s life is in a downward spiral until she takes unusual advice from a friend: to give away 29 gifts in 29 days.
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