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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: Five Collaboration Tips from Introverts
By Genevieve DeGuzman | February 1, 2012Collaboration and open-plan offices are trendy. But in the rush to tear down walls, are we forgetting the virtues of solitude?
Articles: What Mel Brooks Can Teach Us about “Group Flow”
By R. Keith Sawyer | January 25, 2012Researcher R. Keith Sawyer looks to comedians and jazz groups for 10 keys to more creative, successful teams in the office, on the field, and beyond.
Articles: How Childcare Boosts Social Capital
By Meera Lee Sethi | January 18, 2012New research says mothers using childcare can reap social, psychological, and financial rewards.
Articles: Smarts and Stamina
By Jill Suttie | January 12, 2012A new book provides 50 tips to help busy people improve their health, one step at a time.
Articles: How to Get Doctors to Give a Hand
By Melissa Janson | October 26, 2011Study suggests appealing to altruism increases hand washing in hospitals.
Raising Happiness: Inspiration for Parents
By Christine Carter | June 9, 2011Everyday things that make my heart soar.
Raising Happiness: Helping Kids Deal with Stress
By Christine Carter | June 1, 2011Read the latest Raising Happiness newsletter.
Raising Happiness: My UC Berkeley Commencement Speech
By Christine Carter | May 18, 2011Brief advice for a life well-lived
Raising Happiness: April Newsletter: Christine Carter on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart!
By Christine Carter | April 27, 2011Raising Happiness v. Tiger Mothering
Articles: Can We Find Happiness at Work?
By Michael Bergeisen | April 1, 2011Srikumar Rao, the “happiness guru” of the business world, discusses his ideas for finding joy and meaning in your job--part of Greater Good's podcast series.
Articles: Should Lottery Winners Share with Their Colleagues?
By Jason Marsh | April 1, 2011Greater Good's Jason Marsh writes on CNN.com that sharing the latest Mega Millions jackpot might bring the winners more happiness than keeping the prize all to themselves.
Videos and Podcasts: Srikumar Rao on Happiness at Work
By The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | March 30, 2011The “happiness guru” of the business world discusses his ideas for finding joy and meaning in your job.
Raising Happiness: Brene Brown: In Support of an Ordinary Childhood
By Christine Carter | March 9, 2011Our children are vulnerable. Let’s embrace that.
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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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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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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.
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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Take a Greater Good Quiz!
How compassionate are you? How generous, grateful, or forgiving? Find out!
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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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