Tag: Social Connections
Tag: Social Connections
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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.
Articles: Compassion across Cubicles
By Jill Suttie | Spring/Summer 2006A new research movement tries to keep people from tuning out their emotions when they punch in to work.
Articles: Book Review: All Rise
By Matthew Wheeland | Spring/Summer 2006By Robert W. Fuller
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006, 200 pages
Articles: The Evolution of Empathy
By Frans de Waal | Fall/Winter 2005-06We tend to think of empathy as a uniquely human trait. But it’s something apes and other animals demonstrate as well, says primatologist Frans de Waal. He shows how our evolutionary history suggests a deep-rooted propensity for feeling the emotions of others.
Articles: A Feeling for Fiction
By Keith Oatley | Fall/Winter 2005-06Books, movies, and plays are more than just entertainment, says psychologist and novelist Keith Oatley. They train us in the art of being human. He explains how fictional works nurture empathy and enhance our social and emotional lives.
Articles: Book Review: Leave No Child Behind
By Matthew Wheeland | Spring/Summer 2005by James Comer
Yale University Press, 2004, 352 pages
Articles: Nobel Pursuits
By Jes Ward | Spring/Summer 2005It’s been 10 years since Jes Ward first heard of the PeaceJam program when she was in high school; now she helps run it. In that time she’s seen thousands of youth learn that the only thing more inspiring than the lives of Nobel Peace Prize Winners is the chance to follow in their footsteps.
Articles: A Different View
By Alfie Kohn | Spring/Summer 2005How we can help children see the world from another perspective.
Articles: Book Review: The Psychology of Gratitude
By Christine Carter | Fall 2004Edited by Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough
Oxford University Press, 2004, 368 pages
Articles: Research on Buddhist Conceptions of Compassion: An Annotated Bibliography
By Jennifer Goetz | June 1, 2004How do Buddhist and Western notions of compassion differ? Read summaries of research comparing the two traditions.
Articles: Book Review: Kids Working It Out
By Elizabeth Cushing Payne | Spring 2004Edited by Tricia S. Jones and Randy Compton
Jossey-Bass, 2003, 360 pages
Articles: A Change of Heart
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004An interview with former Illinois Governor George Ryan
by Jason Marsh
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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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Can You Run Out of Empathy?
May 20, 2013An 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.
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‘Free the Mind’ film
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Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
May 17, 2013A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.
Greater Good Events
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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