The Compassionate Instinct
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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. At the forefront of this revolution in scientific understanding is the Greater Good Science Center, based at the University of California, Berkeley. The center fuses its cutting-edge research with inspiring stories of compassion in action in Greater Good magazine. The best of these writings are collected here, and contributions from Steven Pinker, Robert Sapolsky, Paul Ekman, Michael Pollan, and the Dalai Lama, among others, will make you think not only about what it means to be happy and fulfilled but also what it means to lead an ethical and compassionate life.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- Contributors
- PART ONE: THE SCIENTIFIC ROOTS OF HUMAN GOODNESS
- Introduction
- The Compassionate Instinct: Dacher Keltner
- The Evolution of Empathy: Frans B. M. de Waal
- Peace among Primates: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Hope on the Battlefield: Dave Grossman
- Political Primates: Christopher Boehm
- The Forgiveness Instinct: Michael E. McCullough
- The New Science of Forgiveness: Everett L. Worthington Jr.
- Brain Trust: Michael Kosfeld
- Pay It Forward: Robert A. Emmons
- Wired to Be Inspired: Jonathan Haidt
- PART TWO: HOW TO CULTIVATE GOODNESS IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH FRIENDS, FAMILY, COWORKERS, AND NEIGHBORS
- Introduction
- Feeling Like Partners: Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Neera Mehta
- Love, Honor, and Thank: Jess Alberts and Angela Trethewey
- Stumbling toward Gratitude: Catherine Price
- The Choice to Forgive: Fred Luskin
- Compassion across Cubicles: Jill Suttie
- Are You a Jerk at Work?: Robert I. Sutton
- A Feeling for Fiction: Keith Oatley
- A Different View: Alfie Kohn
- Can I Trust You? A Conversation between Paul Ekman and His Daughter Eve: Jason Marsh
- Hot to Help: Daniel Goleman
- PART THREE: HOW TO CULTIVATE GOODNESS IN SOCIETY AND POLITICS
- Introduction
- We Are All Bystanders: Dacher Keltner and Jason Marsh
- The Cost of Apathy: An Interview with Robert Reich: Jason Marsh
- The Activism Cure: Meredith Maran
- America's Trust Fall: Jeremy Adam Smith and Pamela Paxton
- The Power Paradox: Dacher Keltner
- Edible Ethics: An Interview with Michael Pollan: Jason Marsh
- The Hot Spot: Lisa Bennett
- In Search of the Moral Voice: Jason Marsh
- Making Peace through Apology: Aaron Lazare
- Truth + Reconciliation: Desmond Tutu
- Why Is There Peace?: Steven Pinker
- The Morality of Global Giving: An Interview with Jan Egeland: Jason Marsh
- Global Compassion: A Conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman: Paul Ekman
- The Heroine with One Thousand Faces: Lisa Bennett
- The Banality of Heroism: Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo
