What Is a Meaningful Life?
Kicking off Greater Good’s podcast series, Dacher Keltner discusses the scientific frontiers of compassion, happiness, and altruism.
Dacher Keltner on the Science of a Meaningful Life
The Greater Good Science Center's faculty director discusses "the science of a meaningful life": how to raise compassionate kids, reduce greed and selfishness, and find true happiness.
Our Favorite Books of 2015
Greater Good's editors pick the most thought-provoking, important, or useful nonfiction books published this year on the science of a meaningful life.
Why Inequality Is Bad for the One Percent
What Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” video reveals about the links between inequality, compassion, and happiness.
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