Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner is a professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. His research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, and humility, as well as power, social class, and inequality.
Dacher is the author of several hundred scientific articles and several books, including Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, The Compassionate Instinct, and The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. He has won many research, teaching, and service awards, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Upcoming Programs by Dacher Keltner
Awe and Wonder: An Exploration Through Science, Contemplation, and Expressive Writing
Also With Mollie McNeil
Awe is the feeling of encountering vast mysteries that transcend our current knowledge and understanding of the world. In its greatest sense, it is an astonished and transformative appreciation for the moral beauty of others, for nature, for the arts — and is always rooted in a spiritual understanding of life. In this new, paradigm-shifting […]