The Greater Good Science Center is dedicated to building connections with the community beyond UC Berkeley. By sponsoring public lectures and participating in public symposia we encourage dialogue about the importance of promoting positive emotions and relationships in classrooms, in families, and in our communities at large.
An unprecedented free online course exploring the roots of a happy, meaningful life. Co-taught by the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas. Up to 16 CE credit hours available.
An in-person companion course to our blockbuster online “Science of Happiness” course.
Frans de Waal—one of Discover’s 47 Great Minds of Science—reviews expressions of empathy and the sense of fairness in animals.
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Interested in researching compassion and healthcare? Consider applying for the Dignity Health-CCARE Fellowship!
The GGSC continues Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude with a two-year Gratitude Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity!
Find links to articles and webcasts where the Greater Good Science Center, Greater Good magazine, or GGSC staff and faculty are featured.
We’re all in search of ways to become more productive, less stressed and better balanced between work and play. Sociologist and happiness expert Christine Carter talks about the strategies that work. (Audio interview)
More and more California school districts are including social emotional learning in their curricula. Follow the link to watch a news piece with an interview with GGSC's Vicki Zakrzewski.
The GGSC's former director on routines, will power, and finding your sweet spot.
How can parents help kids have a healthy relationship to money? It starts with overcoming shyness and discomfort about financial issues.
Jill Suttie knows the benefits of mindfulness, but she still doesn't practice it. What holds her back?
Love comes from action, not waiting to be adored.
An unprecedented free online course exploring the roots of a happy, meaningful life. Co-taught by the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas. Up to 16 CE credit hours available.
How compassionate are you? How generous, grateful, or forgiving? Find out!
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Talks by inspiring speakers like Jon Kabat-Zinn, Dacher Keltner, and Barbara Fredrickson.
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"Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior"
Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
"Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
"From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
Center for Investigating Healthy MindsThe Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
Northeast Foundation for ChildrenNortheast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
Center for Positive Organizational ScholarshipBased at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
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How to Forge a Mentoring Relationship
Education | February 17, 2015
How to Increase Compassion at Work
Work & Career | February 16, 2015
Can Awe Boost Health?
Mind & Body | February 12, 2015
Three Risky Ways to Fall Deeply in Love
Family & Couples | February 11, 2015
My Trouble With Mindfulness
Mind & Body | February 9, 2015
How Christine Carter Got Her Groove Back
Family & Couples | February 6, 2015
How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Spoiled
Family & Couples | February 4, 2015
Don’t Fool Yourself: Use Technology Intentionally
Mind & Body | February 2, 2015
