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by Sonja Lyubomirsky, 2014
What makes people happy? Is happiness a good thing? How can we make people happier still? Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, examines happiness and how we can use our minds as well as coping tools to better handle life's challenges. Series: "Stein Institute for Research on Aging"
by Sonja Lyubomirsky, 2014
Pepperdine University, Seaver College, and the W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series is proud to present Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky as she discusses "The Science of Happiness".
by Shane Lopez, 2013
by Laura King, 2014
Laura King of the University of Missouri busts 5 common myths about the meaning of life at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (www.spsp.org) 2014 conference in Austin,TX. King explains that meaning is life is common, easily attainable, and something that scientists can and should study. Cheryl Kaiser of the University of Washington introduces her. (Feb. 14, 2014)
by Dacher Keltner, 2012
The Berkeley professor charts the moral decline of a nation.
by Dacher Keltner, 2012
Dacher Keltner, UC Berkley psychology professor and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, explores the evolutionary roots of compassion and empathy.
by Dacher Keltner, 2010
Dacher Keltner, the UC Berkeley psychology professor and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, shares his insights from the new science of touch: compassionate communication, touch therapies, and proof that "to touch is to give life."
by Dacher Keltner, 2013
Can science aid us in the pursuit of happiness? UC Berkeley professor Dacher Keltner makes an evolutionary case for the emergence of compassion, tracing the argument to Darwin, and illustrating how kindness is the pathway to happiness.
by Dacher Keltner, 2010
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. A second is the study of power, status and social class, and the nature of moral intuitions. Dacher is the co-author of two best selling textbooks, one on human emotion, the other on social psychology, as well as Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, published in January 2009 by WW Norton Publishers, and The Compassionate Instinct, to be published by WW Norton in 2010.