Articles: Animal Instincts: Not What You Think They Are
By Marc Bekoff | March 8, 2011Marc Bekoff explains how many different animal species show grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and a range of other emotions.
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Raising Happiness: How to Raise an Unhappy Child
By Christine Carter | January 12, 2011Why do so many people still believe that achievement leads to happiness?
Articles: 6 Simple Practices to Handle Holiday Stress
By James Baraz | December 9, 2010James Baraz explains how you can really enjoy the holidays.
Articles: Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Kids
By Jill Suttie | October 12, 2010In one troubled city, researchers and community members are working together to boost altruism among adolescents. What can their project teach other communities facing hard times?
Raising Happiness: Finding “Flow”
By Christine Carter | October 12, 2010Learn two key factors for fostering this particular form of happiness
Raising Happiness: How to be a More Patient Parent
By Christine Carter | October 5, 2010Losing your mind? Stop judging yourself and come back to your breath and your body.
Raising Happiness: Saddling Up with Imperfection
By Christine Carter | September 26, 2010Embracing our mistakes promotes growth, happiness… and a longer life
Raising Happiness: Why Play is Important for Self-Discipline
By Christine Carter | September 21, 2010Play is an important skill that kids need for both happiness and, surprisingly, self-discipline.
Videos and Podcasts: Why Play is Important for Self-Discipline
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | September 20, 2010Play is an important skill that kids need for both happiness and, surprisingly, self-discipline.
Raising Happiness: Music for the People
By Christine Carter | September 16, 2010Kids’ brain power is heightened more by creating music than listening to it.
Raising Happiness: Hurry Up Already
By Christine Carter | August 23, 2010Getting kids to pick up the pace
Raising Happiness: Book Club: Raising Happiness, Ch. 8
By Christine Carter | August 19, 2010Mom? Mom? Mom? Mom? Are you listening Mom?
Raising Happiness: August 2010: To TV or Not to TV
By Christine Carter | August 17, 2010Weighing the pros and cons of introducing television into our household
Raising Happiness: Celebrate Summer
By Christine Carter | July 27, 2010Why we can all enjoy the summer, before it passes us by.
Raising Happiness: Borrowing Time for Bliss
By Christine Carter | July 11, 2010Putting time for yourself on the calendar is a little like scheduling sex: Once it’s a task, the joy is sucked right out of it.
Articles: Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
By Marc Bekoff | May 20, 2010Marc Bekoff explains that if we want to understand the roots of human goodness, we've got to look beyond humans.
Raising Happiness: Mother’s Day Happiness Challenge
By Christine Carter | April 29, 2010If you haven't read The Trouble with Motherhood yet, I think you'll like it. I've never gotten so many calls, texts, or emails in response to a posting before.
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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
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 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...
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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