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Articles: Each One, Help One
By Elizabeth O’Brien | Fall/Winter 2006-07As working families find it ever harder to pay their bills, a nonprofit organization connects small donors to people with modest needs.
Articles: Why Do We Walk On By?
By Marc Barasch | Fall/Winter 2006-07To find empathy for the homeless, Marc Ian Barasch put himself in their shoes for a week.
Articles: Ethics on the Corner
By Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky | Spring/Summer 2006As illegal immigration runs rampant in the United States, so does abuse of undocumented workers. But, asks Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, what ethical rules should apply to employees who are here illegally in the first place?
Articles: The Ethics of Responsibility
By Jonathan Sacks | Spring/Summer 2006Everyday virtue and the meaning of life
Articles: Book Review: All Rise
By Matthew Wheeland | Spring/Summer 2006By Robert W. Fuller
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006, 200 pages
Articles: Schools without Beauty
By Jonathan Kozol | Fall/Winter 2005-06What message are we sending kids when their classrooms are an “insult to aesthetics”?
Articles: Rebuilding Community after Katrina
By Jason Marsh | Fall/Winter 2005-06An Interview with Bowling Alone author Robert Putnam
Articles: The Chauffeur’s Dilemma
By Arlie Hochschild | Fall/Winter 2005-06The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting left behind. Why don’t more people stick up for fellow citizens facing hard times? Because, argues Arlie Hochschild, empathy is being squeezed from the American way of life.
Articles: The Morality of Global Giving
By Jason Marsh | Spring/Summer 2005An interview with Jan Egeland, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
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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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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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University of California, Berkeley
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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
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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