Articles: Can a Bad Deed Lead to a Good One?
By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | April 3, 2013A new study reveals how our frame of mind shapes our sense of right and wrong.
Tag: Morality
Tag: Morality
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Articles: November Education Newsletter
By Vicki Zakrzewski | November 14, 2012Want round-ups of recent Greater Good Education posts delivered to your email Inbox? Sign up for our education newsletter!
Articles: The Misunderstood Middle Schooler
By Vicki Zakrzewski | October 16, 2012To address the rampant behavior problems in middle school, we need to better understand teens' moral development.
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: Righteous Minds
By Jill Suttie | April 30, 2012Jonathan Haidt's new book tries to help liberals and conservatives understand each other. But does he succeed?
Articles: Why You Shouldn’t Curb Your Compassion
By Brylyn Stacy | April 13, 2012A new study suggests the hidden costs of callousness.
Articles: Do Babies Know What’s Fair?
By Bernie Wong | March 20, 2012A new study suggests they do, even before they’re two years old.
Articles: Steven Pinker’s History of (Non)Violence
By Jason Marsh | October 19, 2011The psychologist's latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, is essential reading for any reader of Greater Good.
Videos and Podcasts: Paul Bloom on Sex, George Clooney, and Other Pleasures
By The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | August 10, 2011The author of How Pleasure Works explains why we do good and how to find true happiness.
Articles: Sex, George Clooney, and the Meaning of Life
By Michael Bergeisen | August 10, 2011Paul Bloom discusses how the psychology of pleasure can explain what we like and why we do good--part of Greater Good's podcast series.
Articles: The Good, the Bad, and the Brain
By Gregg Sparkman | August 3, 2011A review of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality.
Articles: How Good News Can Inspire Good Deeds
By Carmen Sobczak | July 11, 2011A recent study suggests how acts of kindness can have a far-reaching ripple effect.
Articles: How to Rebuild Trust
By Anahid Modrek | October 11, 2010A recent study suggests that our beliefs about human nature strongly influence how trusting we are.
Articles: How to Understand the Tea Party
By Michael Bergeisen | October 7, 2010As the political season heats up, psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains why liberals and conservatives don’t understand each other, and how psychological research can help us get past the culture wars—part of Greater Good's podcast series.
Videos and Podcasts: Jonathan Haidt on Politics and Emotion
By The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | October 7, 2010As the political season heats up, Professor Haidt explains how our emotions influence our moral and political views, why liberals and conservatives don’t understand each other, and how psychological research can help us get past the culture wars.
Articles: The Roots of Moral Courage
By Kristen Renwick Monroe | June 23, 2010Why do some people risk their lives to help others? Kristen Renwick Monroe has dedicated her career to finding out.
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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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‘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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The International Summit Conference on Compassionate Organizations
May 16, 2013
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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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