Tag: Meaningful Life
Tag: Meaningful Life
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Articles: The Science of Spirituality: A Review of Fingerprints of God
By Cjay Roughgarden | August 25, 2009
Raising Happiness: How do you really feel about the holidays?
By Christine Carter | December 13, 2007
Articles: Compassion across Cubicles
By Jill Suttie | Spring/Summer 2006A new research movement tries to keep people from tuning out their emotions when they punch in to work.
Articles: The Ethics of Responsibility
By Jonathan Sacks | Spring/Summer 2006Everyday virtue and the meaning of life
Articles: Book Review: Field Notes on the Compassionate Life
By Jason Marsh | Fall/Winter 2005-06By Marc Ian Barasch
Rodale, 2005, 367 pages
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: Book Review: Resiliency
By Lauren Shapiro | Fall 2004by Bonnie Benard
WestEd, 2004, 148 pages
Articles: Book Review: Flourishing
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004Edited by Corey L. M. Keyes and Jonathan Haidt
American Psychological Association, 2003, 355 pages
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Seven Paths to a Meaningful Life
May 28, 2013A giant in the field of social psychology draws on five decades of teaching and research to reveal the secrets of a fulfilling life to today's graduating seniors.
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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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Five Reasons Why It’s a Good Time to be a Dad
June 12, 2013Feeling fed up and burned out, Dad? That may be a sign of progress, says Jeremy Adam Smith.
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How to Make Giving Feel Good
June 18, 2013Studies show giving makes people happy, and happiness makes people give--but not always. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton offer three ways to help people feel good about giving.
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Rethinking Family Meetings
June 17, 2013 -
Death and Gratitude: Death Reflection Enhances Gratitude
June 14, 2013
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
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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
29 Gifts
Walker’s life is in a downward spiral until she takes unusual advice from a friend: to give away 29 gifts in 29 days.
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