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Purpose
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To psychologists, purpose is an abiding intention to achieve a long-term goal that is both personally meaningful and makes a positive mark on…
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Bridging Differences
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Americans are increasingly divided along social and political lines. The evidence for this polarization can be found in our most intimate…
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Compassion
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Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…
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Gratitude
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Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…
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Mindfulness
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Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through…
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Diversity
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For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…
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Awe
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Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…
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Social Connection
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When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…
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Happiness
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Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…
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Forgiveness
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Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…
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Empathy
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The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…
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Altruism
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Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…
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“The feeling that your life is significant is related to more than feeling that your actions are influential to others. Significance is augmented when your behaviors, or experiences more broadly, matter to yourself.”― Three Ways to See Meaning in Your Life, by Joshua A. Hicks