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Check out this fun video about Greater Good Science Center scientists

By Christine Carter | October 19, 2010

Ever wonder what Dacher Keltner and other GGSC researchers are up to in the lab? Want to see me working with schoolchildren?

Check out this fun video that aired on the University of California’s UCTV about the Science of Happiness.

GGSC Executive Committee member and UC Berkeley psychologist Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton.

GGSC Executive Committee member and UC Berkeley psychologist Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton.

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About the Author

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 Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction (BenBella, 2020), The Sweet Spot: How to Accomplish More by Doing Less (Ballantine Books, 2015), and Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents (Random House, 2010). A former director of the GGSC, she served for many years as author of its parenting blog, Raising Happiness. Find out more about Christine here.

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