Greater Good Magazine
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The Greater Good Science Center is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the scientific understanding of happy and compassionate individuals, strong social bonds, and altruistic behavior. While serving the traditional tasks of a UC Berkeley research center—fostering groundbreaking scientific discoveries—the GGSC is unique in its commitment to helping people apply scientific research to their lives.
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Articles by Greater Good Magazine
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Marriage, No Marriage and Happy Marriage
As a sociologist with an interest in family issues, headlines like “51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse” and...
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Teaching Emotional Intelligence
Six months ago a newspaper columnist and a sociologist met outside their daughters’ kindergarten classroom and ......
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Dads and Social Capital
Over at the blog Daddy Dialectic, my esteemed colleague “Chicago Pop” meditates on the relationship between...
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The Happiness Gap
A column by David Leonhardt in September 2007 New York Times reports on two new studies that have reached the same...
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Imaginary Friends
Marjorie Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and an expert on imaginary friends. She read...
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Virtual Playgrounds
Critics often charge that new technologies—especially TV and video games—have replaced the good old outdoors with...
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The Gender of Video Games
In the next issue of Greater Good (Spring 2008), I have an essay on new research into video games. My focus is on the...
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Children as Happy Robots?
I just recently had a chance to read the letters to the editor written in response to the San Francisco Chronicle...
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Peaceful Parenting
It's nine o'clock on a school night and 12-year-old Jesse is absorbed in his favorite video game—until his mother...
