Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life - Hardcover

Keltner, Dacher

 
9780393065121: Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 039306512X ISBN 13: 9780393065121
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

An optimistic assessment of humanity's biological predisposition for goodness draws on scientific findings, personal narrative, and eastern philosophy to explain how positive emotions are a key component of ethical action, the establishment of cooperative societies, and living a happy life. 40,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dacher Keltner is the Thomas and Ruth Ann Hornaday professor of psychology and the director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught social psychology for the past 18 years and is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Letters and Sciences. His research focuses on the prosocial emotions (such as love, sympathy, and gratitude), morality, and power. Other awards include the Western Psychological Association’s award for outstanding contribution to research, the Positive Psychology Prize for excellence in research, and the Ed and Carol Diener mid-career award for research excellence in social psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2008, the Utne Reader listed Dacher as one of the 50 visionaries changing the world.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039306512X
ISBN 13 
9780393065121
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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