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The Top 10 Insights From the "Science of a Meaningful Life" in 2013

The tide of psychology, which has traditionally probed into the dysfunctions of the human mind, has been shifting to ...

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How to Eliminate Junk Stimulus

Does your life feel busy or cluttered? Clearing out our mental and emotional closets starts with an honest appraisal ...

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What Is Gratitude?

"Robert Emmons, perhaps the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key ...

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What Is Compassion?

"Compassion literally means to suffer together. Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises ...

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How to Cultivate Global Compassion

Paul Ekman, legendary psychologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, is an expert on emotion recognition and his work ...

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How Groups Shape Individual Judgment

Peer pressure, herd mentality, groupthink -- all various phrases that hint at a central truth: the mind of the group ...

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Robert Hass on How Poetry Captivates Us

Robert Hass is one of contemporary American poetry's most celebrated and widely-read voices. He served as U.S. Poet ...

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