Greater Good

Articles: Can You Run Out of Empathy?

An essay in this week’s New Yorker argues that we don't have enough empathy to go around. But new research says we can keep renewing and expanding our feeling for others.

Articles: Training Kids for Kindness

Brooke Dodson-Lavelle explains how a trailblazing compassion training program expands children's natural capacity for empathy and kindness—even toward so-called "bullies."

Articles: How to Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth

Many of us assume that we only have so much compassion to spare. But research says we can build our capacity to alleviate suffering.

Articles: The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2012

The most surprising, provocative, and inspiring findings published this past year.

Articles: Why Inequality Is Bad for the One Percent

What Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” video reveals about the links between inequality, compassion, and happiness.

Articles: Four Ways to Encourage Kindness in Students

Back-to-school tips: Research-based steps teachers can take to prime their students for kindness.

Research Digest Items/Studies: Why We Help Strangers

Articles: A Training to Make Teachers Less Stressed

A new study shows how the Cultivating Emotional Balance program can help teachers (and the rest of us) reduce stress and cultivate compassion.

Articles: Does SEL Make the Grade?

Fueled by new research, the social-emotional learning movement is building momentum. Is it enough to make American schools change their course?

Articles: Feeling Connected Makes Us Kind

A recent study suggests that our social connections inspire altruism.

Articles: Debunking the Myth of Human Selfishness

Two new books explore the far-reaching science of cooperation.

Articles: A Simple Bully Buster: Cooperative Learning

A recent study suggests how teachers can promote kindness in the classroom, not competition.

Articles: The Good, the Bad, and the Brain

A review of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality.

Articles: The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence

A new study suggests EI can be used for evil as well as good.

Research Digest Items/Studies: Fear of Being Envied Makes People Help Others