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Dacher Keltner

About Dacher

Dr Dacher Keltner is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the host of the GGSC’s award-winning podcast The Science of Happiness and is a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name.

One of the world’s foremost emotion scientists, Dr Dacher has over 200 scientific publications and six books, including Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life (2009) and The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence (2016). He was a co-editor of the Greater Good anthology, The Compassionate Instinct (2010). He has also written for many popular outlets, from The New York Times to Slate, and was the scientific advisor behind Pixar’s Inside Out.

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The power of awe in early parenthood

We need to remind ourselves that caring for children has a lot of awe in it

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