Articles: Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
By Jeremy Adam Smith | May 16, 2013Americans are less likely to say "thanks" on the job than anywhere else, which hurts productivity and happiness. That needs to change.
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Articles: Six Tips for Making the Leap to Meaningful Work
By Roman Krznaric | May 15, 2013Job satisfaction is at record lows. What does it take to overcome the fear of change, especially in tough economic times?
Articles: Do Givers Get Ahead?
By Jill Suttie | May 1, 2013It's the givers, not the takers, who thrive the most in business, argues a new book.
Articles: Does Materialism Fuel Work-Life Conflict?
By Scott Behson | April 12, 2013A new study says materialistic values can worsen conflict between family and work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Articles: Why Inequality Is Bad for the One Percent
By Jason Marsh | September 25, 2012What Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” video reveals about the links between inequality, compassion, and happiness.
Articles: Markets and Moral Limits
By Ann Shulman | September 24, 2012A new book argues that markets have a place—but it's not in hospitals, daycare centers, schools, or families.
Articles: The Cooperative Instinct
By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | September 21, 2012A new study finds that our first, quickest impulse is to cooperate, not compete.
Articles: When the Going Gets Tough, the Affluent Get Lonely
By Yasmin Anwar | August 31, 2012A new study says affluent people are less likely to reach out to others in times of chaos.
Articles: Happiness is about Respect, not Riches
By Stacey Kennelly | July 13, 2012A study shows that admiration from peers—not wealth or economic status—is what really makes us happy.
Articles: Kindness Makes You Happy… and Happiness Makes You Kind
By Alex Dixon | September 6, 2011New research suggests that once you start doing nice things for other people, you might not want to stop.
Articles: How Has the Recession Affected Our Happiness?
By Jennifer Stellar | June 28, 2011A recent survey looks at the link between money and happiness during hard times.
Articles: The Science of Happiness, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
By Jason Marsh | May 20, 2011An interview with Roko Belic, director of the new documentary film Happy.
Raising Happiness: My UC Berkeley Commencement Speech
By Christine Carter | May 18, 2011Brief advice for a life well-lived
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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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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”
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Here’s How Much You Love Humanity
May 21, 2013Results from the Greater Good "Love of Humanity" quiz.
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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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