Tag: Politics
Tag: Politics
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Articles: The Altruistic Electorate
By Jason Marsh | Fall 2007New research debunks some conventional political wisdom.
Articles: The Politics of Gratitude
By Jason Marsh | Summer 2007An interview with Iraq’s former ambassador to the United States, Rend Al-Rahim Francke
Articles: Bystanders to Genocide
By Jason Marsh | Fall/Winter 2006-07An Interview with Philip Gourevitch
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: Book Review: The Ethical Brain
By Jason Marsh | Spring/Summer 2006By Michael S. Gazzaniga
Dana Press, 2005, 225 pages
Videos and Podcasts: Empathy and the Greater Good
By Jason Marsh | January 30, 2006A Greater Good Science Center event on the science and practice of empathy, featuring Arlie Hochschild, Phil & Carolyn Cowan, Lyssa Mudd, and Jason Marsh. Introductions by Deirdre English and Dacher Keltner.
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: Book Review: Coming to Our Senses
By Pat Soberanis | Spring/Summer 2005by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Hyperion, 2005, 631 pages
Articles: Truth and Reconciliation
By Desmond Tutu | Fall 2004Forgiveness is not just personally rewarding. It's also a political necessity, says Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He explains how forgiveness allowed South Africans to imagine a new beginning-one based on honesty, peace, and compassion.
Articles: Making Peace Through Apology
By Aaron Lazare | Fall 2004There's more than one way to say "I'm sorry," according to apology expert Aaron Lazare. Some apologies encourage forgiveness and reconciliation; others only make things worse. Here's how to tell the difference.
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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
May 17, 2013 -
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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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
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
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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