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Maryam Abdullah
Maryam Abdullah, Ph.D., is the Parenting Program Director of the Greater Good Science Center. She is a developmental psychologist with…
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Amy L. Eva
Amy L. Eva, Ph.D., is the associate education director at the Greater Good Science Center. As an educational psychologist and teacher…
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Mariah Flynn
Mariah Flynn is the Education Program Coordinator for the Greater Good Science Center and provides administrative support for GGSC education…
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Shuka Kalantari
Shuka Kalantari is executive producer of audio for podcasts at Greater Good, including The Science of Happiness podcast, in partnership with…
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Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of…
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Jason Marsh
Jason Marsh is the founding editor in chief of Greater Good and the GGSC’s executive director. He is also a co-editor of two anthologies of…
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Kira M. Newman
Kira M. Newman is the managing editor of Greater Good. She writes, edits, and produces content for all of the Greater Good Science Center’s…
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Jane B. Park
Jane B. Park is the Executive Producer at the Greater Good Science Center. She produces video for the center’s online magazine and the…
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Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas
Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas, Ph.D., is the science director of the Greater Good Science Center, where she directs the GGSC’s research fellowship…
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Jeremy Adam Smith
Jeremy Adam Smith edits the GGSC’s magazine, Greater Good. He is the author or coeditor of five books: The Daddy Shift; Rad Dad: Dispatches…
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Jill Suttie
Jill Suttie, Psy.D., is Greater Good’s former book review editor and now serves as a staff writer and contributing editor for the magazine.…
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Vicki Zakrzewski
Vicki Zakrzewski (zahk-shef-skee), Ph.D., is the education director of the Greater Good Science Center.
In her role as education director,…
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Carolyn P. Cowan
Carolyn Pape Cowan, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of psychology, emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley. She co-directed and…
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Diana Divecha
Diana Divecha, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist, an assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center and Yale Center for…
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Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman, Ph.D., is the world’s foremost expert on facial expressions and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of…
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Robert Emmons
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., is the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude. He is a professor of psychology at the University of…
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Matt Killingsworth
Matt Killingsworth, Ph.D., is a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar. He studies the nature and causes of human happiness, and is…
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Fred Luskin
Fred Luskin, Ph.D., is the director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects, a senior consultant in health promotion at Stanford…
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at UC Riverside and the author of the best-selling books The How of Happiness and The…
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Nipun Mehta
Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace (formerly CharityFocus), an incubator of projects that works at the intersection of volunteerism,…
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Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-editor of the Greater…
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Kristin Neff
Kristin Neff, Ph.D., is an associate professor in educational psychology at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of
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Daniel Siegel
Dan Siegel, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness…
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Frans de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., a Dutch-born primatologist, is the C. H. Candler Professor at Emory University and director of the Living Links…
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Robb Willer
Robb Willer, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology, psychology (by courtesy), and organizational behavior (by courtesy) at Stanford University.…
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Yasmin Anwar
Yasmin Anwar is a Media Relations Representative at UC Berkeley.
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Giacomo Bono
Giacomo Bono, Ph.D., is an associate professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, who studies positive youth development with…
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Allison Briscoe-Smith
Allison Briscoe-Smith, Ph.D., is a senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center and the co-instructor of the GGSC’s Bridging Differences…
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Christine Carter
Christine Carter, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center. She is the author of The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and…
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Patrick Cook-Deegan
Patrick Cook-Deegan is the founder and director of Project Wayfinder. Patrick was a 2015-2016 education innovation fellow at Stanford’s…
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Robert Emmons
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., is the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude. He is a professor of psychology at the University of…
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Barbara Fredrickson
Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D., is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the principal investigator of the Positive Emotions and…
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Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is the author of the bestsellers Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, and Focus: The Hidden Driver of…
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Amie M. Gordon
Amie M. Gordon, Ph.D., is a social-personality psychologist who takes a dynamic, dyadic approach to investigating the affective,…
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Sophie H. Janicke
Sophie H. Janicke, Ph.D., is a positive media psychologist working as an associate professor at Chapman University, who investigates the role…
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is a professor of medicine emeritus and founding director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the…
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Roman Krznaric
Roman Krznaric, Ph.D., is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London and empathy advisor to organizations including Oxfam and…
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at UC Riverside and the author of the best-selling books The How of Happiness and The…
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Rhonda Magee
Rhonda Magee, JD, is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco. She is also Chair of the Board of the Center for Contemplative Mind…
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Kelly McGonigal
Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., is a health psychologist who specializes in understanding the mind-body connection. She is the best-selling author of…
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Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-editor of the Greater…
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Jenara Nerenberg
Jenara Nerenberg is the author of the acclaimed book Divergent Mind, which was hailed by Library Journal as “extraordinary, jaw-dropping,”…
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Emma Seppala
Emma Seppälä, Ph.D., is science director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and the…
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Daniel Siegel
Dan Siegel, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness…
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Elizabeth Svoboda
Elizabeth Svoboda is a San Jose-based writer and author of What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness. She is working on a…
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Frans de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., a Dutch-born primatologist, is the C. H. Candler Professor at Emory University and director of the Living Links…
