neuroscience

What Does Science Teach Us About Well-Being?

Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry

Mind with Heart

Mind with Heart is an international charity, based in the UK, dedicated to equipping young people with the social and emotional skills necessary to their well-being and to building a more sustainable society.

What makes us want to be good?

Article by by Judy Silber. “Compassion is complex,” says Emiliana Simon Thomas, the former associate director of CCARE, the Center for Compassion And Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. Brian Knutson, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, adds: “It’s not quite an emotion, is it? It’s more sophisticated.”

Emerging science is exploring how our minds feel for others.

The Compassionate Instinct

By Dacher Keltner

Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.

George E. Vaillant-Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith

Vaillant, George E.  Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith (Three Rivers Press, 2008).

Excerpt from Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith                                                                

Sharon Begley--The Plastic Mind

    

Begley, Sharon.  The Plastic Mind (Constable, 2009).

Excerpt from The Plastic Mind

Chapter 1: Can We Change?

Books: Compassion from the Perspective of Modern Psychology and Neuroscience

Begley, Sharon.  The Plastic Mind (Constable, 2009). 

Steve Maraboli: Dare to Be

Learn more about Steve Maraboili's two publications (click here for information and purchase)

The Empathic Civilization

 

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.


Jeremy Riflin--We're Born to Empathize and Befriend

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