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Leading researchers and thinkers explore the roots of compassion, happiness, morality, and more. Provocative, enlightening, and inspiring.
As an expert on the topic of interpersonal forgiveness, it is difficult for me to hear of situations when teachers and parents demand childr...
Imagine someone shares a charged, vulnerable story in a meeting and the room goes quiet. In that silence, where does your mind go? You might...
Parenting is an all-consuming job—one that calls for constant caretaking, problem solving, emotional labor, and financial resources. Today,...
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, e...
Take a few minutes to reflect on someone who inspires you, and how you can embody the values you admire in them.
Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we’re offering a special Happiness & Forgiveness Calendar—an...
For many, romantic partnerships are at the heart of our well-being in life. Yet, these same relationships can be fraught or hard to maintain...
Even though we live in a culture where social media gives anyone and everyone a platform to broadcast their inner lives, people today are as...
What happens when we slow down enough to really experience art? We visit a museum to discover how slow looking at art can cultivate awe, emp...
Every year, we at Greater Good give out the “Greater Goodies”–awards to series and movies that highlight human strengths and virtues. For th...
In this video from our Bridging Differences for Parents and Teens series, learn how five families fostered skills for dialogue and understan...
American colleges are facing intense challenges from protests, financial strains, and political interference from the White House. Beverly D...
Why would you leave a job? Better pay? More benefits? Those are positive reasons. But surveys have found that as many as a quarter of employ...
When I filled out my National Kidney Registry living donation application, I hoped I’d have the opportunity to improve someone else’s life....
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, l...
Finding ways to bend tasks toward your strengths and passions can make you happier, more productive and find more meaning in your life—no ma...
Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you expand your circle of care. To open the...
Mystics once spent years meditating in caves in search of transcendence. Today, a growing number of people believe something similar can be...
In early childhood classrooms, silence is one of the most mysterious behaviors we meet. From a distance, two children can look almost identi...
This four-part article series provides parents and caregivers research-backed insights from renowned experts to everyday questions about rai...
Having a curious approach to life can improve our mood, creativity and relationships. Scott Shigeoka leads a visualization exercise to help...
Northeast Park Hill, a Denver neighborhood, has a long history of violence. During Denver’s summer of violence in the early 1990s, it was co...
Amanda* remembers it was lunchtime when her biblical counselor fed her father lines to apologize for sexually abusing her, beginning when sh...
In 2004, I was approached by an administrator at John Brown University, a Christian school in Arkansas. He invited me to campus to help crea...
Every year, we at Greater Good give “Greater Goodies” to movies that illuminate human strengths and virtues. This year’s list includes films...
Explore the neuroscience behind improvisation—and what it reveals about our natural capacity for creativity.
Understanding one another can be hard. There is a big difference between someone snapping at you out of contempt, and calling you out for a...
In contemporary society, we are quick to pathologize our behaviors. We jokingly call our fondness for cleaning “OCD,” sometimes argue that “...
My sister-in-law recently became a grandparent, twice over. Now, whenever we talk, she raves about how wonderful it is to spend time with he...
Through the early decades of the 21st century, the principle of diversity had broad influence, embraced in the United States by leaders at e...
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Claude M. Steele’s 2010 book, Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, reshaped...
Does your to-do list feel endless? Try this short, guided practice to help you reflect, reconnect, and release the pressure to do it all per...
Teachers, think back to when you were your students’ age. Picture yourself: who you were, how you spent your time, what mattered to you. Now...
When my daughter Anjali was young, she was tiny but fierce. She would erupt over small injustices, like having to set one more plate on the...
Recently, I woke to the blaring noise of our downstairs TV. My husband had been watching it the night before and had accidentally left it on...
In the current political climate in the United States, when large majorities of Americans are exhausted by the divisiveness, terrified about...
From a worker-owned restaurant in Oakland to a nonprofit built on shared leadership, we explore how collective work models can help people f...
Surprise parties. Marriage proposals. Sports upsets. Bank collapses. Military sneak attacks. Why do some unexpected events catch us complete...
Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs. This month, c...
Have you ever had one of those days (or years) where you chafe against the reality that humanity is a group project? Do you, too, find yours...
What happens in your brain when you read or write a poem? We listen to powerful poetry from you, our listeners, and uncover the neuroscience...
We are living in a time when educators are being pressured to conform to the idea that there is a single, correct path to learning. Only cer...
Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you expand your circle of care. To open the...
Through poetic reflection, Yrsa Daley-Ward helps us embrace the in-between moments, reminding us that the unknown can be the very terrain wh...
“Humble” is not a word my colleagues would use to describe me, especially early in my career. In fact, when word got around that I was resea...
When I moved my family of four—husband and two daughters, seven and nine at the time—in with my parents, I knew that I was taking on a lot....
My husband, Don, will talk to anyone. In line at a store, on a plane, in a parking lot; it doesn’t matter where we’re at, he’ll engage. In f...
I’m one of those freaks who genuinely enjoys dating. Not because I typically get what I want (believe me, I don’t), but because I see dating...
A simple experiment turning a parking space into a parklet reveals how small changes to public spaces can spark connection, belonging, and a...
Imagine that after work, a woman decides to take her dog to the park. Although rules mandate that pets must be leashed at this hour, she dec...