Articles: Why You Shouldn’t Curb Your Compassion
By Brylyn Stacy | April 13, 2012A new study suggests the hidden costs of callousness.
Tag: Compassion
Tag: Compassion
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Raising Happiness: Is Your Kid Mean?
By Christine Carter | April 3, 2012Five ways to raise kind and compassionate kids.
Articles: The Power of Self-Compassion
By Jason Marsh | March 14, 2012Kristin Neff discusses how self-compassion differs from self-esteem, why self-compassion can be hard for Americans, and the transformative effect it had on her own life--part of Greater Good's podcast series.
Videos and Podcasts: Kristin Neff on the Power of Self-Compassion
By The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | March 13, 2012The pioneering researcher and author of Self-Compassion explains why it’s OK to accept your faults and be kind to yourself.
Articles: A Training to Make Teachers Less Stressed
By Melissa Janson | March 8, 2012A new study shows how the Cultivating Emotional Balance program can help teachers (and the rest of us) reduce stress and cultivate compassion.
Raising Happiness: Is Marital Bliss Sexist?
By Christine Carter | March 3, 2012A brief Q&A with myself.
Articles: Is It Best to Be Greedy in Tough Economic Times?
By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton | February 23, 2012New research suggests that evolution selects for altruism, not greed.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: 5 Tips for Dealing with Difficult Relatives Over the Holidays
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | December 22, 2011Sometimes the holidays are hard because of other people.
Videos and Podcasts: 5 Tips for Dealing with Difficult Relatives Over the Holidays
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | December 22, 2011Think you have to put up with your mean mother or drunk uncle again at your big holiday meal this year? Think again. Rona and I discuss five ways to make challenging relationships less difficult over the holidays.
Articles: Low-Income People Quicker to Show Compassion
By Yasmin Anwar | December 20, 2011New research by GGSC graduate fellow Jennifer Stellar finds that upper classes are less able to recognize suffering.
Raising Happiness: The Foundation of Happiness
By Christine Carter | November 21, 2011My favorite gratitude practices.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Occupy: Should the Kids be Involved?
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | November 10, 2011What social justice has to do with happiness
Videos and Podcasts: Occupy: Should the Kids be Involved?
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | November 10, 2011This week Rona and I discuss how and why to talk to kids about the Occupy Wall Street movement, and why giving them a broader understanding can boost their happiness (and ours!).
Articles: Just One Thing: Have Compassion For Yourself
By Rick Hanson | November 8, 2011Responding to another person's suffering is hard; responding to our own suffering can be harder. Rick Hanson explains how to foster self-compassion.
Raising Happiness: Gratitude vs. Materialism
By Christine Carter | November 7, 2011Holiday happiness is simpler than you might think!
Raising Happiness: The Power of the Compassionate Imagination
By Christine Carter | October 31, 2011
Articles: The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
By Jack Kornfield | August 23, 2011Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness--and explains how the next story could be yours.
Research Digest Items/Studies: Does Being Drunk, Powerful, and in the Dark Make You Do Good—or Evil?
Articles: The Wisdom of Babies
By Mary Gordon | July 27, 2011As Roots of Empathy gears up for its U.S. expansion, founder Mary Gordon reveals how the program has nurtured compassion around the world, one child at a time.
Raising Happiness: Tuesday Tip: Give Out Some Hugs
By Christine Carter | July 26, 2011One thing you can do today to be happier.
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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.
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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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...
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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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