Articles: Teens Who Help, Help Their Hearts
By Vicki Zakrzewski | February 26, 2013New research shows that adolescents who volunteer decrease their risk for heart disease.
Tag: Volunteering
Tag: Volunteering
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Articles: Staying Sober through Service
By Jill Suttie | March 13, 2012A researcher finds that helping others might be the secret weapon in the fight against addiction.
Articles: Six Ways to Boost Your “Habits of Helping”
By Stephen G. Post | March 15, 2011Want to live a longer, healthier life? Stephen G. Post explains how to reap the benefits of practicing altruism.
Articles: Serve Others, Find Success
By Anahid Modrek | September 28, 2010Research suggests that young people motivated to help others are poised for a successful career.
Articles: What Seniors Get from Giving Back
By Bernie Wong | July 22, 2010Research shows how older volunteers can get the most out of their service.
Articles: Teaching Transformation
By Lisa Calderone-Stewart | March 16, 2010Lisa Calderone-Stewart reveals research-based principles for turning youth into leaders.
Articles: The Helper’s High
By James Baraz, Shoshana Alexander | February 1, 2010Suffering is inevitable. But James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander argue that responding to pain with compassion, care, and generosity is key to a joyful life.
Raising Happiness: Finding the Good in a Bad Economy (there’s a video, too)
By Christine Carter | August 10, 2009Articles: The Activism Cure
By Meredith Maran | June 1, 2009People who give to others give healthier, happier lives to themselves, argues Meredith Maran.
Articles: Rebuilding Community after Katrina
By Jason Marsh | Fall/Winter 2005-06An Interview with Bowling Alone author Robert Putnam
Articles: Any Volunteers?
By Amitai Etzioni | Fall 2004Why Americans need more chances to serve their country—and each other.
Articles: Book Review: Flourishing
By Jason Marsh | Spring 2004Edited by Corey L. M. Keyes and Jonathan Haidt
American Psychological Association, 2003, 355 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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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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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.
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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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