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Articles: Five Steps to Happiness at Work
By Timothy Sharp | July 1, 2009Australian positive psychologist Timothy Sharp—otherwise known as "Dr. Happy"—asked 50 people a simple question: What do you consider to be the top three contributors to happiness at work? Their answers provide food for thought to managers and employees alike.
Articles: Working for Happiness
By Alex Frankel | July 1, 2009Some workplaces are happier than others. Journalist Alex Frankel tried to discover why.
Articles: How to Stay Together When Everything is Coming Apart
By Jeremy Adam Smith | February 25, 2009
Articles: Rising Together
By Jennifer A. Chatman | Summer 2008Jennifer A. Chatman explains how companies can fight prejudice in the workplace.
Articles: It’s April 15: Do You Know Where Your Income Tax Dollars Are Going?
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 15, 2008
Articles: The Wild Ones
By Howard P. Chudacoff | Spring 2008Throughout American history, adults have tried to control children’s play. But Howard P. Chudacoff argues that in the end, the kids will always win.
Articles: Little Dictator
By Pete Simpson | Winter 2007-08The psychology of power: A story of power
Articles: Are You a Jerk at Work?
By Robert I. Sutton | Winter 2007-08Robert I. Sutton explains how to handle bullies in the office—and prevent your own “inner jerk” from getting out.
Articles: Book Review: What Children Need
By Christine Carter | Fall/Winter 2006-07By Jane Waldfogel
Harvard University Press, 2006, 269 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
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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