Videos and Podcasts: Mindsight vs. Emotional Intelligence
By Daniel Siegel | October 28, 2010Daniel Siegel talks with Christine Carter about how mindsight relates to emotional intelligence, social intelligence, and mindfulness.
Tag: Emotional Intelligence
Tag: Emotional Intelligence
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Raising Happiness: Book Club: Raising Happiness, Ch. 5
By Christine Carter | July 29, 2010Negative emotions have their place.
Articles: Missed Signals
By Gregg Sparkman | May 24, 2010A new study reveals the hidden costs of cosmetic surgery.
Raising Happiness: Try This: Build Emotional Literacy
By Christine Carter | May 14, 2010This video from the Rachael Ray Show features Raising Happiness techniques for increasing gratitude, joy, and emotional intelligence in your household--while reducing sibling conflict and back-talk.
Raising Happiness: Siblings: How to Help them be Friends Forever
By Christine Carter | January 20, 2010
Articles: Windows of Opportunity
By Daniel Goleman | Fall 2008A new book and CD help students build emotional intelligence.
Articles: The Secret to Success
By Daniel Goleman | Summer 2008New research says social-emotional learning helps students in every way.
Articles: Stop! Calm Down! Think!
By Dawn Friedman | Winter 2007-08The Second Step program has helped nine million kids understand and manage their emotions—and research shows that it’s leading to kinder, smarter schools says Dawn Friedman
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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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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...
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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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