Articles: Five Ways to Develop “Ecoliteracy”
By Daniel Goleman, Zenobia Barlow, Lisa Bennett | April 18, 2013Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett, and Zenobia Barlow explain how we can teach kids to care deeply about the environment.
Tag: Emotional Intelligence
Tag: Emotional Intelligence
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Articles: Training Kids for Kindness
By Brooke Dodson-Lavelle | March 5, 2013Brooke Dodson-Lavelle explains how a trailblazing compassion training program expands children's natural capacity for empathy and kindness—even toward so-called "bullies."
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: Can Educators Cultivate Ecological Intelligence?
By Jill Suttie | December 5, 2012A new book, co-written by Emotional Intelligence author Daniel Goleman, argues that schools are the best places to cultivate an understanding of our relationship to the natural world.
Articles: You’re Never Too Old to Build Emotional Intelligence
By Andrew Yee | April 24, 2012A recent study suggests we can learn to regulate and manage our emotions even after we’re reached adulthood.
Articles: Five Lessons in Human Goodness from “The Hunger Games”
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 18, 2012The plot of the new film sounds cynical. But it reveals a surprising amount about the science of human goodness.
Articles: Creating Emotionally Intelligent Parenting Networks
By Maurice Elias | April 4, 2012In a time of toxic stress, Maurice J. Elias says it's time for parents to support each other's emotional development.
Raising Happiness: Is Your Kid Mean?
By Christine Carter | April 3, 2012Five ways to raise kind and compassionate kids.
Articles: The Emotional Life of Your Brain
By Jill Suttie | March 16, 2012A new book from Richard Davidson and Sharon Begley reveals how to train our brains for health and happiness.
Articles: Does SEL Make the Grade?
By Jill Suttie | September 20, 2011Fueled by new research, the social-emotional learning movement is building momentum. Is it enough to make American schools change their course?
Raising Happiness: Are My Kids Already Over-Scheduled?
By Christine Carter | August 31, 2011Dealing with back-to-school scheduling stress.
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.
Articles: Social Science, with a Touch of Snark
By Jill Suttie | July 13, 2011Greater Good’s book review editor examines The Social Animal, by David Brooks.
Articles: The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence
By Jason Marsh | June 9, 2011A new study suggests EI can be used for evil as well as good.
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: Why Laughter is Contagious
By Raymond Firmalino | April 12, 2011A new study offers the first evidence that chimps imitate each other's laughter. Learn why this is research you should keep in mind at your next business meeting.
Articles: Fake Smiles May Be Bad for Your Health
By Jason Marsh | February 22, 2011A new study suggests how our facial expressions affect our happiness.
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: You Can’t Buy Empathy
By Jason Marsh | December 14, 2010New research suggests the rich have a hard time reading others' emotions.
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Nine Things Educators Need to Know About the Brain
March 19, 2013In an excerpt from his new book, psychologist Louis Cozolino applies the lessons of social neuroscience to the classroom.
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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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Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
March 21, 2013New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
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‘Free the Mind’ film
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Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
May 17, 2013A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.
Greater Good Events
Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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...
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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