Your Happiness Calendar for December 2021
This month, lift your spirits with kindness and love.
How Can We Improve Mental Health Treatment for Black Youth?
To help Black youth overcome mental health challenges, therapists need to better understand their unique challenges and cultural strengths.
What Multicultural Families Can Teach Kids About Character
There are more multiethnic and multi-faith families than ever. A new study reveals how their values and traditions are coming together.
How Feeling Old Could Make You Kinder
New research finds that people who feel old for their age are more willing to help strangers.
Six Reasons Why Humans Wear Masks
Today, we wear masks to celebrate Halloween and ward off disease—but the mask has deep roots in human history. Here’s what masks mean to us.
How to Communicate When Everyone Is Wearing a Mask
People are paying a communications penalty for covering their faces against COVID-19. But the science suggests we can still get a lot across.
Episode 101: Can You Mend a Broken Bond?
They were childhood best friends until one came out as queer. Now, two college students reconnect and try to see the world through one another's eyes.
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Episode 99: What Happens When We Play
When was the last time you went down a slide? Our guest tries a practice to bring more play into his life and explores what that means as a…
Why Are Asian Americans Being Attacked and What Can You Do About It?
Here are science-backed ways we can reduce hatred and division.
What Can We Do Now?
While votes for the 2020 election are counted, our contributors weigh in on what we as individuals can do now to preserve our well-being and…
Our Favorite Books of 2020
Greater Good’s editors pick the most thought-provoking, practical, and inspirational science books of the year.
Four Lessons from “Inside Out” to Discuss With Kids
The new Pixar film has moved viewers young and old to take a look inside their own minds.
What Can We Learn from the World’s Most Peaceful Societies?
A multidisciplinary team of researchers is discovering what makes some societies more peaceful than others.
Episode 95: How to Enjoy Life More With Michael Pollan
Bestselling author Michael Pollan tries to get more out of life by temporarily giving up one of his pleasures.
Ten More Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity
It’s time for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from one of the most difficult years in living memory.
How to Communicate When Everyone Is Wearing a Mask
People are paying a communications penalty for covering their faces against COVID-19. But the science suggests we can still get a lot across.