Articles: Helping Kids Delay Gratification
By Jill Suttie | April 9, 2013A new book explains how to help kids mature and improve their executive functioning… without relying on punishments.
Tag: Development
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Articles: Don’t Blame the Brain
By Jill Suttie | February 19, 2013A new book argues that education must be based on how our brains really function—not how we wish they would.
Articles: What Gen Y Needs from Parents (and Why You Should Give It to Them)
By Diana Divecha | January 22, 2013New research says parental help for young adults is normal—and it may now be necessary.
Articles: Just One Thing: See Progress
By Rick Hanson | January 9, 2013As we look back on the past year, we'll be able to see things that have gotten worse. But Rick Hanson asks us to also recognize what's gotten better.
Articles: How to Foster Gratitude in Schools
By Jeffrey Froh, Giacomo Bono | November 20, 2012When students are thankful, they feel more connected to their schools and teachers, explain researchers Jeffrey J. Froh and Giacomo Bono.
Articles: November Education Newsletter
By Vicki Zakrzewski | November 14, 2012Want round-ups of recent Greater Good Education posts delivered to your email Inbox? Sign up for our education newsletter!
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: 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.
Articles: Baby Love
By Melissa Janson | February 7, 2012New research suggests the care we receive as infants affects the quality of our relationships as adults.
Articles: Emotionally Intelligent Kids Share More with Others
By Whitney Patterson | May 12, 2011A new study suggests it's important to talk with young kids about emotions.
Articles: Should We Talk to Young Children about Race?
By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton | May 5, 2011Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton explains why colorblindness doesn't work.
Articles: When Values Trump Violence
By Katie Goldsmith | July 13, 2010A new study suggests an important way to reduce bullying.
Videos and Podcasts: The Benefits of Family Mealtime
By Jason Marsh | April 1, 2010Research shows that family mealtime together is a great way to contribute to kids’ health and well-being. Christine Carter gives parents practical tips on ABC’s afternoon talkshow “The View From the Bay.”
Raising Happiness: Holiday Happiness: Is it all About Forgiveness?
By Christine Carter | October 28, 2009
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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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"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
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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