Tag: Positive Emotions
Tag: Positive Emotions
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Raising Happiness: How do you really feel about the holidays?
By Christine Carter | December 13, 2007Raising Happiness: Introduction: Emotional Literacy & Raising Happy Kids
By Christine Carter | October 5, 2007
Articles: Book Review: Coming to Our Senses
By Pat Soberanis | Spring/Summer 2005by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Hyperion, 2005, 631 pages
Articles: The Choice to Forgive
By Fred Luskin | Fall 2004Forgiveness takes practice, says Fred Luskin, but it's a skill almost anyone can learn. He shares his research-tested method for helping people give up their grudges.
Articles: The New Science of Forgiveness
By Everett L. Worthington Jr. | Fall 2004Everett L. Worthington, Jr. has dedicated his career to the study of forgiveness. He has found that it carries tremendous health and social benefits—and he's taken his research to heart.
Articles: Research on the Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: An Annotated Bibliography
By Christine Carter | September 1, 2004Just how much can parents influence the happiness of their children? Read this discussion of what research has to say.
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Seven Paths to a Meaningful Life
May 28, 2013A giant in the field of social psychology draws on five decades of teaching and research to reveal the secrets of a fulfilling life to today's graduating seniors.
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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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Five Reasons Why It’s a Good Time to be a Dad
June 12, 2013Feeling fed up and burned out, Dad? That may be a sign of progress, says Jeremy Adam Smith.
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Rethinking Family Meetings
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Death and Gratitude: Death Reflection Enhances Gratitude
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Five Reasons Why It’s a Good Time to be a Dad
June 12, 2013Feeling fed up and burned out, Dad? That may be a sign of progress, says Jeremy Adam Smith.
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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
The Daddy Shift
What happens when women go to work and men take care of children? This influential book from Greater Good Science Center editor Jeremy Adam Smith explores how the evolution of parenthood has opened up new possibilities for care and empathy among men.
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