Articles: Juan Williams and the Psychology of Prejudice
By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton | October 28, 2010Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton explains the difference between Juan Williams and Jesse Jackson.
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Videos and Podcasts: Stephen Batchelor on Buddhism and Science
By The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | August 1, 2010The best-selling Buddhist author discusses the interplay between Buddhism and science, and the need to “re-think Buddhism from the ground up.”
Articles: Rethinking Buddhism
By Michael Bergeisen | July 29, 2010Best-selling Buddhist author Stephen Batchelor discusses the interplay between Buddhism and science—part of Greater Good's podcast series.
Articles: The Science of Spirituality: A Review of Fingerprints of God
By Cjay Roughgarden | August 25, 2009
Articles: Truth in the Balance, Part II: An Interview with Neuroscientist and Author Michael S. Gazzaniga.
By Jeremy Adam Smith | October 7, 2008Articles: Truth in the Balance, Part I: An Interview with Psychologist and Author Steven Pinker
By Jeremy Adam Smith | October 6, 2008Articles: Book Review: Spiritual Evolution
By Azim Shariff | Fall 2008by George E. Vaillant
Broadway Books, 2008, 228 pages
Articles: Book Review: Emotional Awareness: A conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman
By Jason Marsh | Fall 2008Times Books, 2008, 288 pages
Raising Happiness: Materialism v. Altruism During the Holidays
By Christine Carter | December 6, 2007
Articles: Right and Wrong in the Real World
By Joshua Halberstam | Spring/Summer 2006From our friendships to our jobs to our conduct in public, seemingly small decisions often pose tough ethical dilemmas, says Joshua Halberstam. He offers guidance for navigating the ethical dimension of everyday life.
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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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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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World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
May 21, 2013A Q&A with visionary educator John Hunter, creator of the World Peace Game.
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
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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...
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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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