Raising Happiness: Tuesday Tip: Broadcast Your Good News
By Christine Carter | May 10, 2011One thing you can do today to be happier.
Tag: Positive Emotions
Tag: Positive Emotions
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Raising Happiness: Rethinking Optimism
By Christine Carter | May 4, 2011Fostering confidence in children is easier than you think.
Raising Happiness: What To Do When You Are Unhappy
By Christine Carter | April 6, 2011Feeling better after we feel bad
Articles: Six Ways to Boost Your “Habits of Helping”
By Stephen G. Post | March 15, 2011Want to live a longer, healthier life? Stephen G. Post explains how to reap the benefits of practicing altruism.
Articles: A Little Meditation Goes a Long Way
By Jason Marsh | February 9, 2011A new study offers the strongest evidence to date that meditation can change the structure of your brain.
Articles: Dacher Keltner on BloggingheadsTV with Robert Wright
By Jason Marsh | January 15, 2011Greater Good's executive editor discusses the science of touch, awe, oxytocin, and more.
Articles: 6 Simple Practices to Handle Holiday Stress
By James Baraz | December 9, 2010James Baraz explains how you can really enjoy the holidays.
Videos and Podcasts: What Good is Gratitude?
By Robert Emmons | November 17, 2010Robert Emmons discusses why practicing gratitude has transformative effects on our social and emotional well-being.
Articles: Why Gratitude Is Good
By Robert Emmons | November 16, 2010Need some motivation for practicing gratitude this Thanksgiving? Robert Emmons, the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, reveals why gratitude is good for our bodies, our minds, and our relationships.
Videos and Podcasts: The Power of Gratitude
By Robert Emmons | November 15, 2010Robert Emmons explains how gratitude has the ability to heal, energize, and change our lives.
Articles: Hands On Research: The Science of Touch
By Dacher Keltner | September 29, 2010Dacher Keltner explains how compassion is literally at our fingertips.
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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
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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