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The Compassionate Instinct : the science of human goodness.

By: Contributor(s): New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393337280
  • 0393337286
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Compassionate instinct.DDC classification:
  • 155.2/32 22
LOC classification:
  • BF637.H4 .C65 2010
Other classification:
  • B824
Contents:
PART ONE: The scientific roots of human goodness -- The compassionate instinct / Dacher Keltner -- The evolution of empathy / Frans B.M. de Wall -- Peace among primates / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Hope on the battlefield / Dave Grossman -- Political primates / Christopher Boehm -- The forgiveness instinct / Michael E. McCullough -- The new science of forgiveness / Everett L. Worthington, Jr. -- Brain trust / Michael Kosfeld -- Pay it forward / Robert A. Emmons -- Wired to be inspired / Jonathan Haidt.
PART TWO: How to cultivate goodness in relationships with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors -- Feeling like partners / Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Neera Mehta -- Love, honor, and thank / Jess Alberts and Angela Trethewey -- Stumbling toward gratitude / Catherine Price -- The choice to forgive / Fred Luskin -- Compassion across cubicles / Jill Suttie -- Are you a jerk at work? / Robert I. Sutton -- A feeling for fiction / Keith Oatley -- A different view / Alfie Kohn -- Can I trust you? : a conversation between Paul Ekman and his daughter Eve / Jason Marsh -- Hot to help / Daniel Goleman.
PART THREE: How to cultivate goodness in society and politics -- We are all bystanders / Dacher Kaltner and Jason Marsh -- The cost of apathy : an interview with Robert Reich / Jason Marsh -- The activism cure / Meredith Maran -- America's trust fall / Jeremy Adam Smith and Pamela Paxton -- The power paradox / Dacher Keltner -- Edible ethics : an interview with Michael Pollan / Jason Marsh -- The hot spot / Lisa Bennett -- In search of the moral voice / Jason Marsh -- Making peace through apology / Aaron Lazare -- Truth + reconciliation / Desmond Tutu -- Why is there peace? / Steven Pinker -- The morality of global giving : an interview with Jan Egeland / Jason Marsh -- Global compassion : a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman / Paul Ekman -- The heroine with one thousand faces / Lisa Bennett -- The banality of heroism / Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo.
Summary: Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab BF637 .H4 .C65 2010 1 Available 50583020020263
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: The scientific roots of human goodness -- The compassionate instinct / Dacher Keltner -- The evolution of empathy / Frans B.M. de Wall -- Peace among primates / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Hope on the battlefield / Dave Grossman -- Political primates / Christopher Boehm -- The forgiveness instinct / Michael E. McCullough -- The new science of forgiveness / Everett L. Worthington, Jr. -- Brain trust / Michael Kosfeld -- Pay it forward / Robert A. Emmons -- Wired to be inspired / Jonathan Haidt.

PART TWO: How to cultivate goodness in relationships with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors -- Feeling like partners / Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Neera Mehta -- Love, honor, and thank / Jess Alberts and Angela Trethewey -- Stumbling toward gratitude / Catherine Price -- The choice to forgive / Fred Luskin -- Compassion across cubicles / Jill Suttie -- Are you a jerk at work? / Robert I. Sutton -- A feeling for fiction / Keith Oatley -- A different view / Alfie Kohn -- Can I trust you? : a conversation between Paul Ekman and his daughter Eve / Jason Marsh -- Hot to help / Daniel Goleman.

PART THREE: How to cultivate goodness in society and politics -- We are all bystanders / Dacher Kaltner and Jason Marsh -- The cost of apathy : an interview with Robert Reich / Jason Marsh -- The activism cure / Meredith Maran -- America's trust fall / Jeremy Adam Smith and Pamela Paxton -- The power paradox / Dacher Keltner -- Edible ethics : an interview with Michael Pollan / Jason Marsh -- The hot spot / Lisa Bennett -- In search of the moral voice / Jason Marsh -- Making peace through apology / Aaron Lazare -- Truth + reconciliation / Desmond Tutu -- Why is there peace? / Steven Pinker -- The morality of global giving : an interview with Jan Egeland / Jason Marsh -- Global compassion : a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman / Paul Ekman -- The heroine with one thousand faces / Lisa Bennett -- The banality of heroism / Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo.

Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.

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