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OSLC is proud to welcome Dacher Keltner, PhD, best-selling author, founder of the Greater Good Science Center, and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley for a FREE public lecture. “Born To Be Good: Lessons from the Science of a Meaningful Life” Thursday, April 21, 2011; 7:30 pm Copies of Dr. Keltner’s best-selling book, Born to Be Good, The Science of a Meaningful Life, will be available for purchase and signing after the lecture. Dacher Keltner, PhD is founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, overseeing the Center’s fellowship program and serving as executive editor of Greater Good magazine. After receiving his PhD from Stanford University, Dr. Keltner has devoted his career to studying the nature of human goodness, conducting ground-breaking research on compassion, awe, laughter, and love. He is also a leading expert on social intelligence, the psychology of power, and the emotional bases of morality. He is currently a full-professor in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Keltner has published more than 120 scientific articles, has written for the New York Times Magazine, the London Times, and Utne Reader, and has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research. He is the author of the best-selling book Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, and a co-editor of the Greater Good anthology, The Compassionate Instinct. Dacher’s research focuses on two time-honored questions – one about the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, and how emotions shape all kinds of judgments; and the other about the study of power, status and social class, and the nature of moral intuitions. Dr. Keltner is an outstanding speaker who has received several national research and teaching awards. Wired has rated the podcasts of his “Human Emotion” course as one of the five best academic podcasts in the country. He has twice presented his research to His Holiness the Dalai Lama as part of a continuing dialogue between the Dalai Lama and scientists, and his work is featured regularly in major media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, the BBC, and NPR. In 2008, the Utne Reader named him as one of 50 visionaries who are changing our world. |
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