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Articles: How Gratitude Can Help You Through Hard Times
By Robert Emmons | May 13, 2013It's easy to feel grateful when life is good, says Robert Emmons. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
Raising Happiness: My Love-Hate Relationship with Mother’s Day
By Christine Carter | May 7, 2013How we’re turning it into a kindness scavenger hunt.
Raising Happiness: April Raising Happiness Newsletter: Happy, Successful, & Kind
By Christine Carter | April 29, 2013Parents frequently tell me that they just want their kids to be happy. More often, they act as though they just want their kids to be successful.
Raising Happiness: Three Quick Tips for Saving the Earth
By Christine Carter | April 22, 2013Outsmart the brain boobie-traps that make you wasteful
Raising Happiness: How to Deal with Mean People
By Christine Carter | April 15, 2013Hint: Don’t just turn the other cheek.
Articles: Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
By Emma Seppala | April 15, 2013Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
Videos and Podcasts: Meditating with Kids
By Christine Carter | April 8, 2013Want to teach kids a simple meditation? Here’s how I do “loving kindness” meditation.
Articles: When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
By Lauren Klein | April 2, 2013A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.
Articles: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part Two
By Jeremy Adam Smith | March 28, 2013Jeremy Adam Smith offers five more tips to help men find a happy fit between paid work and family responsibilities.
Raising Happiness: I Don’t Care How Big the Market Is: Those Are My Daughters
By Christine Carter | March 28, 2013Our 12 year olds think thong underwear makes them cool
Articles: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
By Jeremy Adam Smith | 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.
Raising Happiness: Influencing Teens and Tweeners, Part 2
By Christine Carter | March 25, 2013Five more ways to get through to adolescents.
Articles: Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
By Jason Marsh, Robb Willer | March 21, 2013New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
Raising Happiness: How to Influence Your Teen, Part 1
By Christine Carter | March 11, 2013Ten ways to decrease their resistance to your wise advice.
Articles: Five Life Lessons from “56 Up”
By Jeremy Adam Smith | March 9, 2013The "Up" documentaries have followed 14 people from ages seven to 56—and in the process illustrated recent discoveries about the science of a meaningful life.
Raising Happiness: Happiness Tip: Nag less
By Christine Carter | March 4, 2013Increase the odds that your kids will do things the first time you ask
Raising Happiness: February Raising Happiness Newsletter: Relationship Resources
By Christine Carter | February 27, 2013Are you so over Valentine's Day?
Videos and Podcasts: Sonja Lyubomirsky on the Myths of Happiness
By The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | February 20, 2013A leading researcher in positive psychology explains how understanding our misconceptions about happiness can ultimately lead us to a rich and meaningful life.
Articles: Debunking the Myths of Happiness
By Jason Marsh | February 20, 2013Sonja Lyubomirsky explains what we misunderstand about happiness, and how we can get it right--part of Greater Good's podcast series.
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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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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...
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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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