Articles: Compassionate Leaders are Effective Leaders
By Chade-Meng Tan | September 11, 2012Great companies have compassionate leaders, says Google's "Jolly Good Fellow."
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Articles: Happiness is about Respect, not Riches
By Stacey Kennelly | July 13, 2012A study shows that admiration from peers—not wealth or economic status—is what really makes us happy.
Articles: Should Women Thank Men for Doing the Dishes?
By Jeremy Adam Smith | July 5, 2012Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Having it All” essay in this month's The Atlantic raises important questions about men, women... and gratitude.
Articles: Five Lessons in Human Goodness from “The Hunger Games”
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 18, 2012The plot of the new film sounds cynical. But it reveals a surprising amount about the science of human goodness.
Articles: Affluent People More Likely to be Scofflaws
By Yasmin Anwar | February 28, 2012Seven separate studies by GGSC-affiliated researchers find that upper-class people are more likely to break laws and social customs.
Articles: Is It Best to Be Greedy in Tough Economic Times?
By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton | February 23, 2012New research suggests that evolution selects for altruism, not greed.
Articles: When Gossip is Good
By Yasmin Anwar | January 17, 2012Gossip isn’t all bad — new study finds its social and psychological benefits
Articles: Fox News: GGSC Fellow Study is “Junk”
By Jeremy Adam Smith | December 30, 2011New media coverage of our research ranges from the helpful to the political.
Research Digest Items/Studies: Does Being Drunk, Powerful, and in the Dark Make You Do Good—or Evil?
Videos and Podcasts: The Milgram Experiment
By Philip Zimbardo | January 13, 2011Philip Zimbardo describes the classic and controversial study suggesting how ordinary, decent people can commit heinous acts.
Articles: You Can’t Buy Empathy
By Jason Marsh | December 14, 2010New research suggests the rich have a hard time reading others' emotions.
Articles: Honesty and Respect
By Claude M. Steiner | Winter 2007-08Couples often struggle over sex and intimacy, but Claude M. Steiner offers a path to more satisfying relationships.
Articles: Peaceful Parenting
By Sura Hart, Victoria Kindle Hodson | Winter 2007-08Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson explain how to turn parent-child conflict into cooperation.
Articles: The Power Paradox
By Dacher Keltner | Winter 2007-08True power requires modesty and empathy, not force and coercion, argues Dacher Keltner. But what people want from leaders—social intelligence—is what is damaged by the experience of power.
Articles: The Socially Intelligent Superpower
By Jason Marsh | Winter 2007-08An Interview with Foreign Policy Expert Anne-Marie Slaughter
Articles: Little Dictator
By Pete Simpson | Winter 2007-08The psychology of power: A story of power
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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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How to Make Giving Feel Good
June 18, 2013Studies show giving makes people happy, and happiness makes people give--but not always. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton offer three ways to help people feel good about giving.
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Rethinking Family Meetings
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Death and Gratitude: Death Reflection Enhances Gratitude
June 14, 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...
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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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Walker’s life is in a downward spiral until she takes unusual advice from a friend: to give away 29 gifts in 29 days.
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