A Life of Greatness
By listening you’ll learn why we should expect failure and how it is crucial to any kind of success.
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This profile on UC Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner highlights his breakthrough research on the science of kindness and compassion.
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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Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.
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.
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.