The compassionate instinct
Subtitle: the science of human goodness
By: edited by Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, and Jeremy Adam Smith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780393337280
Description: Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The scientific roots of human goodness.; title: The compassionate instinct  -- Dacher Keltner ;; title: The evolution of empathy  -- Frans B.M. de Wall ;; title: Peace among primates  -- Robert M. Sapolsky ;; title: Hope on the battlefield  -- Dave Grossman ;; title: Political primates  -- Christopher Boehm ;; title: The forgiveness instinct  -- Michael E. McCullough ;; title: The new science of forgiveness  -- Everett L. Worthington, Jr. ;; title: Brain trust  -- Michael Kosfeld ;; title: Pay it forward  -- Robert A. Emmons ;; title: Wired to be inspired  -- Jonathan Haidt; title: How to cultivate goodness in relationships with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.; title: Feeling like partners  -- Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Neera Mehta ;; title: Love, honor, and thank  -- Jess Alberts and Angela Trethewey ;; title: Stumbling toward gratitude  -- Catherine Price ;; title: The choice to forgive  -- Fred Luskin ;; title: Compassion across cubicles  -- Jill Suttie ;; title: Are you a jerk at work?  -- Robert I. Sutton ;; title: A feeling for fiction  -- Keith Oatley ;; title: A different view ; title: Alfie Kohn ;; title: Can I trust you? : a conversation between Paul Ekman and his daughter Eve  -- Jason Marsh ;; title: Hot to help  -- Daniel Goleman; title: How to cultivate goodness in society and politics.; title: We are all bystanders  -- Dacher Kaltner and Jason Marsh ;; title: The cost of apathy : an interview with Robert Reich  -- Jason Marsh ;; title: The activism cure  -- Meredith Maran ;; title: America's trust fall  -- Jeremy Adam Smith and Pamela Paxton ;; title: The power paradox  -- Dacher Keltner ;; title: Edible ethics : an interview with Michael Pollan  -- Jason Marsh ;; title: The hot spot  -- Lisa Bennett ;; title: In search of the moral voice  -- Jason Marsh ;; title: Making peace through apology  -- Aaron Lazare ;; title: Truth + reconciliation  -- Desmond tutu ;; title: Why is there peace?  -- Steven Pinker ;; title: The morality of global giving : an interview with Jan Egeland  -- Jason Marsh ;; title: Global compassion : a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman  -- Paul Ekman ;; title: The heroine with one thousand faces  -- Lisa Bennett ;; title: The banality of heroism -- Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo.