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Helping Kids Think About the Good

The Science of Happiness

Sheltering-at-home with kids? These questions can help them, and us, focus on the good things in life.

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The Compassionate Instinct

Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.

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Dacher Keltner
2004
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Why Is Gratitude So Hard during the Pandemic?

There’s one key to well-being that gets complicated in hard times: Gratitude, the reverence we feel for things that are given to us.

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Jeremy Adam Smith, Kira M. Newman, Jason Marsh, Dacher Keltner, PhD
2020
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Lynne McTaggart and Dr. Dacher Keltner Discuss the Vagus Nerve

An in-depth interview with Dr Dacher Keltner about the vagus nerve and its connection with the rebound effect of sending out healing intention.

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Dacher Keltner
2017
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TEDxBerkeley - Dacher Keltner - 04/03/10

Dacher Keltner is a psychology professor at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on two time-honored questions. A first is the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, with a special concentration on compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape all kinds of judgments.

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Dacher Keltner
2010
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The Gratitude Project: How the Science of Thankfulness Can Rewire Our Brains for Resilience, Optimism, and the Greater Good

In our fractured, “me-first” world, the science and practice of thankfulness could be just the antidote we need. Gratitude is powerful: not only does it feel good, it’s also been proven to increase our well-being in myriad ways.

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Jeremy Adam Smith (editor), Kira M. Newman (editor), Jason Marsh (editor), Dacher Keltner (editor)
2020
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The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness. Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness.

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Dacher Keltner (editor), Jason Marsh (editor), Jeremy Adam Smith (editor)
2010
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Kindness Unveiled: The Science of Compassion with Professor Dacher Keltner

This profile on UC Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner highlights his breakthrough research on the science of kindness and compassion.

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Dacher Keltner
2019
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We Are Built to Be Kind

Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry.

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Dacher Keltner
2014
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