Marc Ian Barasch on "The Compassionate Life"
04:21 min
CLEAR ALL
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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An in-depth interview with Dr Dacher Keltner about the vagus nerve and its connection with the rebound effect of sending out healing intention.
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.
This profile on UC Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner highlights his breakthrough research on the science of kindness and compassion.