Articles: Seven Inspiring Images from 2012
By Jeremy Adam Smith | December 28, 2012Need some elevation? We remember acts of heroism, altruism, compassion, joy, and forgiveness from the past year.
Tag: Inspiration
Tag: Inspiration
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Raising Happiness: The Foundation of Happiness
By Christine Carter | November 21, 2011My favorite gratitude practices.
Raising Happiness: Tuesday Tip: Find Some Inspiration
By Christine Carter | August 2, 2011One thing you can do today to be happier.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Strategies for Feeling Good After You’ve Felt Bad
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 11, 2011Christine's list of go-to feel-better tactics.
Videos and Podcasts: Strategies for Feeling Good After You’ve Felt Bad
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 11, 2011Rona and I continue the conversation from last week about difficult emotions, but this week is focused on recovery. Part 2 of a 2 part series.
Raising Happiness: Manufacturing Happiness
By Christine Carter | April 13, 2011Ways to feel happy after we feel sad.
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.
Articles: Inspiring Good Work
By Howard Gardner, Wendy Fischman | Spring/Summer 2005Steroid abuse. Accounting tricks. Plagiarism. Budding professionals are learning these tricks of their trades from mentors, say researchers Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner. Who will inspire them to practice ethics and excellence on the job?
Articles: Nobel Pursuits
By Jes Ward | Spring/Summer 2005It’s been 10 years since Jes Ward first heard of the PeaceJam program when she was in high school; now she helps run it. In that time she’s seen thousands of youth learn that the only thing more inspiring than the lives of Nobel Peace Prize Winners is the chance to follow in their footsteps.
Articles: Wired to be Inspired
By Jonathan Haidt | Spring/Summer 2005Ever feel a thrill when you see someone act with courage or compassion? Psychologist Jonathan Haidt calls that feeling “elevation,” and his studies of it may provide a key to understanding what inspires people to do good.
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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
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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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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