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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: 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: Staying Sober through Service
By Jill Suttie | March 13, 2012A researcher finds that helping others might be the secret weapon in the fight against addiction.
Videos and Podcasts: What I Wish I’d Known About How to be Happy
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | June 20, 2011Christine and Rona talk about Christine’s commencement speech at UC Berkeley, which was about the three things she wished she’d known about how to be happy when she was graduating from college.
Videos and Podcasts: Talking About Kids’ Stress
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | June 13, 2011Many kids are anxious, depressed, and stressed. They are self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, and they are cutting themselves. Let’s TALK about this rather than ignore the trends.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Talking to Kids about Stress
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | June 13, 2011Let's not ignore that many children are anxious, depressed, and stressed out.
Raising Happiness: High GPAs, Low Happiness?
By Christine Carter | May 11, 2011We may be sacrificing our kids’ happiness for higher grades
Raising Happiness: What To Do When You Are Unhappy
By Christine Carter | April 6, 2011Feeling better after we feel bad
Articles: A Little Meditation Goes a Long Way
By Jason Marsh | February 9, 2011A new study offers the strongest evidence to date that meditation can change the structure of your brain.
Raising Happiness: How to Raise an Unhappy Child
By Christine Carter | January 12, 2011Why do so many people still believe that achievement leads to happiness?
Articles: 6 Simple Practices to Handle Holiday Stress
By James Baraz | December 9, 2010James Baraz explains how you can really enjoy the holidays.
Raising Happiness: 100,000 Happier Parents: Are You Willing to be One?
By Christine Carter | October 26, 2010A call to arms for happier parents (and kids) everywhere
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Five Ways Giving Thanks Can Backfire
April 29, 2013Most of the time, gratitude is good. But research finds that there are situations when "thank you" may be the wrong response.
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How Gratitude Can Help You Through Hard Times
May 13, 2013It's easy to feel grateful when life is good, says Robert Emmons. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
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Six Tips for Making the Leap to Meaningful Work
May 15, 2013Job satisfaction is at record lows. What does it take to overcome the fear of change, especially in tough economic times?
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How to Think LIke Sherlock Holmes
May 24, 2013These two books give us insights into how brain science can help us understand our nature, improve our lives, and help us empathize with those who may have memory lapses.
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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”
May 22, 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.
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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”...
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The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
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Northeast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
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Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
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The Compassionate Mind
We're angry, fearful, depressed--and we can't help it. Societies that encourage us to compete with each other make it difficult to exercise compassion towards ourselves and others.
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