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Secrets of the Vagus Nerve

Dacher Keltner shares his research on the vagus nerve, a key nexus of mind and body and a biological building block of human compassion.

By Dacher Keltner | July 2012 | TRT 6:17

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The Four Constituents of Well-Being

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By Daniel Siegel

Why Teens Turn from Parents to Peers

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The Purpose of the Teenage Brain

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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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