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Awe - The New Science and Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Dacher Keltner
Category: Mind Body Spirit
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a groundbreaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. Thes ...Show more
Awe - The New Science and Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Dacher Keltner
Category: Religion
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a groundbreaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. Thes ...Show more
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Dacher Keltner
Category: Philosophy and Religion
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. The ...Show more
Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner
Category: Self-Help
Demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are nasty, brutish and short - we are in fact born to be good. This title investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why we have evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion that promote ethical action and are ...Show more
The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness by Dacher Keltner
Category: Crime & Adventure
In these pages, leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness. Steven Pinker asks why there is peace; Robert Sapolsky examines violence among primates; Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama talk about global compassion and Daniel Goleman ...Show more
The Gratitude Project - How Cultivating Thankfulness Can Rewire Your Brain for Resilience, Optimism, and the Greater Good by Jeremy Adam Smith (Editor); Kira Newman (Editor); Jason Marsh (Editor); Dacher Keltner (Editor)
Category: Health and Wellbeing
In our fractured, "me-first" world, the science and practice of thankfulness could be just the antidote we need. Gratitude is powerful: not only does it feel good, it's also been proven to increase our well-being in myriad ways. The result of a multiyear collaboration between the Greater Good Science ...Show more
The Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner
Category: Health and Wellbeing
A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about power It shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat green vegetables or ask for a promotion at work. But how do we really gain and maintain power - through coercion or cooperation? What does it do to our beha ...Show more
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence by Dacher Keltner
Category: Health and Wellbeing
A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about power It shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat green vegetables or ask for a promotion at work. But how do we really gain power? And what does it do to us? As renowned psychologist Dacher Keltner rev ...Show more
The Power Paradox - How We Gain and Lose Influence by Dacher Keltner
Category: Popular Psychology
A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world. Power is ubiquitous--but ...Show more
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