Articles: Our Brains, Ourselves
By Jill Suttie | May 27, 2011A review of The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human
Tag: Empathy
Tag: Empathy
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Articles: Just One Thing: Tune into Others
By Rick Hanson | May 17, 2011Empathy is the bedrock of our relationships with others, says Rick Hanson. Here's how to practice it.
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: From Our Bookshelf: Taking Compassion Offline
By Whitney Patterson | March 24, 2011A round-up of recent books on the effects new technologies have on our emotional lives.
Raising Happiness: Watching the Crisis in Japan: Feeling Good While Others Suffer
By Christine Carter | March 23, 2011Compassion is a positive emotion—just like happiness.
Raising Happiness: Save Your Marriage While Raising a Compassionate Child
By Christine Carter | March 16, 2011Practice tools for teaching empathy to children--on your spouse.
Articles: A Call to Compassion
By Jill Suttie | March 10, 2011A review of Karen Armstrong's 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life.
Articles: Animal Instincts: Not What You Think They Are
By Marc Bekoff | March 8, 2011Marc Bekoff explains how many different animal species show grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and a range of other emotions.
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.
Articles: A Peaceful End to the Battle of the Sexes
By Pelin Kesebir | January 20, 2011A review of Is There Anything Good about Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men.
Articles: How to Make an Apology Work
By Whitney Patterson | December 20, 2010A new study offers an important tip to anyone looking for forgiveness.
Articles: Holiday Healing
By Joshua Coleman | December 15, 2010Joshua Coleman discusses how to make the holidays a time for family closeness, not conflict.
Articles: You Can’t Buy Empathy
By Jason Marsh | December 14, 2010New research suggests the rich have a hard time reading others' emotions.
Articles: 5 Ways Giving Is Good for You
By Jill Suttie, Jason Marsh | December 13, 2010Jason Marsh and Jill Suttie offer added incentives to get into the holiday spirit.
Articles: Roots of Empathy on CNN
By Jason Marsh | December 10, 2010The Canadian emotional literacy program gets such much-deserved national coverage in the U.S.
Articles: What Are You Grateful For?
By Jill Suttie | November 22, 2010Some of today's leading artists share their gratitude lists. What's on yours?
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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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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.
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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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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- 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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