Articles: How Comforting Others Helps You with Your Own Struggles
By Kira M. Newman | June 5, 2017According to two new studies, we need practice dealing with our difficult feelings—and we get it from helping other people manage their own.
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Tag: Emotions
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Articles: How to Avoid Regret in Your Social Life
By Sara E. Andrews | May 22, 2017New research suggests that trying to maximize the benefits from your friendships may actually be bad for your well-being.
Articles: How to Handle a Toxic Relationship
By Christine Carter | May 17, 2017When a relationship is causing you stress and suffering, follow these five steps to find more peace.
Articles: Do Mixed Emotions Make Life More Meaningful?
By Kira M. Newman | April 25, 2017According to a new study, we don’t have to feel good all the time in order to live a fulfilling life.
Articles: Confessions of a Bad Meditator
By Christine Carter | April 17, 2017Christine Carter knows meditation is good for her—but she still avoids it. Here’s how she’s trying to change.
Articles: How to Better Understand Your Child
By Diana Divecha | April 11, 2017Pediatrician Claudia Gold wants to help parents and professionals discover the true reasons behind each child’s behavior.
Articles: What’s the Best Strategy for Empathy?
By Summer Allen | April 10, 2017According to a new study, we overestimate how well we can read emotions in other people's faces.
Articles: How to Upgrade Your Gratitude Practice
By Kira M. Newman | April 4, 2017According to a new study, your gratitude journal could be more powerful if you also express that gratitude to others.
Articles: Five Ways Feeling Good Can Be Bad for You
By Kira M. Newman | March 20, 2017Recent research suggests that the quest for constant bliss is misguided.
Articles: What You Can Learn from Polyamory
By Elisabeth Sheff | February 13, 2017A 20-year study of consensually non-monogamous adults reveals seven lessons for anyone who wants to keep love alive.
Articles: What’s the Matter with Empathy?
By Sara H. Konrath | January 24, 2017At a time when “empathy” is more controversial than ever, a researcher explains what it is, what it isn’t, and when it fosters kindness and compassion.
Articles: Are Your Happiness Goals Too High?
By James Baraz | January 17, 2017On the road to well-being, says James Baraz, embrace all your diverse feelings.
Articles: What to Do When You Feel Stuck in Negative Emotions
By Kira M. Newman | January 13, 2017According to a new book, the key is “emotional agility”: being less rigid and more flexible with our thoughts and feelings.
Articles: Six Books We Overlooked in 2016
By Jill Suttie, Jeremy Adam Smith | January 4, 2017Here are some worthy books from the past year that we were unable to review.
Articles: How to Find Happiness When You Reflect on the Past Year
By Kira M. Newman | December 29, 2016According to a new study, reminiscing about certain types of experiences could boost your well-being.
Articles: The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2016
By Kira M. Newman, Tom Jacobs, Mariah Flynn, Summer Allen, Jill Suttie, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith, Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | December 26, 2016Our team names the most provocative and influential findings published during this past year.
Articles: Should We Always Look for Silver Linings?
By Kira M. Newman | December 13, 2016According to a new study, changing your perspective may be helpful in some situations—but not others.
Articles: Would the World Be Better Off without Empathy?
By Jill Suttie | December 8, 2016Paul Bloom’s controversial book Against Empathy mixes valid points with misguided critiques.
Articles: Our Favorite Books of 2016
By Jill Suttie, Kira M. Newman, Diana Divecha, Laura Saponara | December 7, 2016Greater Good's editors pick this year’s most thought-provoking, important, or useful nonfiction books on the science of a meaningful life.
Articles: Do Feelings Look the Same in Every Human Face?
By Jill Suttie | November 30, 2016A new study sparks scientific debate about emotional expression—and raises questions about what we all have in common.
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"Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior"
Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
- "Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
- "From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
- Jeffrey J. Froh’s Laboratory for Gratitude in Youth
Learn more about one of the leading researchers of gratitude.
- Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude
The GGSC’s new project which aims to expand the scientific database of gratitude and promote practices of gratitude in...
- The Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness
The Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness, co-directed by Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough, is a...
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Roots of Empathy
Mary Gordon explains how best to nurture empathy and social emotional literacy in all children—and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.
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