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- A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_type_of_exercise_is_best_for_mental_health 305 comments
- How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_relationship_satisfaction_changes_across_your_lifetime 233 comments
- How the Media Can Help Prevent Mass Shootings https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_the_media_can_help_prevent_mass_shootings 75 comments
- A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (2010) [pdf] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/KILLINGSWORTH-WanderingMind.pdf 73 comments
- Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/five_ways_to_cultivate_gratitude_at_work 45 comments
- Why It Doesn't Pay to Be a People Pleaser http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_it_doesnt_pay_to_be_a_people_pleaser 154 comments
- Can We Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice? http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_we_reduce_bias_in_criminal_justice 35 comments
- Ways Happiness Can Hurt You http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_ways_happiness_can_hurt_you 3 comments
- How Small Acts of Kindness Can Help With Anxiety https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_small_acts_of_kindness_can_help_with_anxiety 7 comments upliftingnews
- Young Americans May Be Less Selfish Than Previous Generations https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/young_americans_may_be_less_selfish_than_previous_generations 8 comments upliftingnews
- Is it really only the politicians who made India like this? https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/is_social_media_driving_political_polarization 5 comments india
- How Money Changes the Way You Think and Feel https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_money_changes_the_way_you_think_and_feel 27 comments truereddit
- Studies show teaching about “White Privilege” does not increase empathy for minorities, but actually significantly decreases empathy for disenfranchised/poor/homeless/mentally ill white people, especially poor, rural white people https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_happens_when_you_educate_liberals_about_white_privilege 124 comments science
- The Myth of the Alpha Male https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_myth_of_the_alpha_male 323 comments truereddit
- What Political Polarization Looks Like in the Brain: Liberal and conservative brains respond differently to political messages, a new study finds https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_political_polarization_looks_like_in_the_brain 3 comments science
- Why We Need Empathy in the Age of Trump http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_we_need_empathy_in_the_age_of_trump#sthash.brqdevta.sfju 5 comments politics
- How Awe Makes Us Generous - "A new study finds that feeling small in nature makes us more generous to other humans." http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_awe_makes_us_generous 59 comments science
- Finding Morality in Animals http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/morality_animals 265 comments philosophy
- Researchers find that the emotion of awe may help children develop empathy http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/an_awesome_way_to_make_kids_less_self_absorbed 3 comments science
- Military leaders know a secret: The vast majority of people are overwhelmingly reluctant to take a human life. http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergood/archive/2007summer/grossman.pdf 17 comments reddit.com
- The Evolution of Empathy http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergood/2010/january/de_waal.php 3 comments cogsci
- The Mind of the Bystander http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergoodscience/?p=14 3 comments cogsci
- Violence is declining, argues psychologist Steven Pinker. What are we doing right? http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergood/2009april/pinker054.php 10 comments cogsci
- Remarkable historical research: Only 15 to 20 percent of soldiers in WWII combat would fire at the enemy. (Based on interviews with 1000s of soldiers) http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergood/current_issue/grossman.html 138 comments reddit.com