Articles: The Case for Discussing Spirituality in Schools
By Vicki Zakrzewski | January 8, 2013Research suggests that spirituality may be a natural developmental process—so what does this mean for secular schools?
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Articles: How Does Religion Shape Compassion?
By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | May 9, 2012A GGSC-sponsored study found that compassion is less important for moving religious people to perform acts of kindness. But that doesn't mean they are less compassionate!
Articles: How Altruistic is the Greater Good Community?
By Gregg Sparkman | April 27, 2012The results are in from the Greater Good altruism quiz—and it turns out that gender, age, and income have significant connections to generosity.
Articles: Here’s How Grateful You Are
By Gregg Sparkman | February 29, 2012The results are in from the Greater Good gratitude quiz. Seems like you've been keeping a gratitude journal, haven't you?
Articles: The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
By Jack Kornfield | August 23, 2011Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness--and explains how the next story could be yours.
Videos and Podcasts: The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
By Jack Kornfield | August 23, 2011Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness—and explains how the next story could be yours.
Videos and Podcasts: What Forgiveness Means
By Jack Kornfield | August 21, 2011The acclaimed teacher and author explains that forgiveness isn’t quick, easy, or sentimental. But it’s invaluable for your own well-being.
Videos and Podcasts: Forgive for You
By Jack Kornfield | August 14, 2011Jack Kornfield explains that we should forgive for the sake of our own dignity and fulfillment.
Videos and Podcasts: Forgiveness Meditation
By Jack Kornfield | August 7, 2011The acclaimed author and teacher leads a meditation to practice forgiveness of others and of oneself, and to seek forgiveness.
Videos and Podcasts: 12 Principles of Forgiveness
By Jack Kornfield | August 6, 2011The acclaimed author and teacher explains the principles that are integral to the process of forgiving, according to Buddhist philosophy.
Articles: A Call to Compassion
By Jill Suttie | March 10, 2011A review of Karen Armstrong's 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life.
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, 2009Articles: Book Review: Spiritual Evolution
By Azim Shariff | Fall 2008by George E. Vaillant
Broadway Books, 2008, 228 pages
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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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Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
March 21, 2013New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
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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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