All posts tagged "Happiness"

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  How Reading Fiction Can Shape Our Real Lives

  I started college in the fall of 2003, when I was seventeen years old. I’d spent the last year dissecting news articles with my AP Government class on the U.S.’s..

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  How Teens Are Making Meaning Out of the Pandemic

  Many people in the media and government have painted an uninspiring portrait of adolescents facing COVID-19. Young people, we are told, are either indiscriminately spreading the virus by failing to..

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  Do Americans Have to Like Each Other to Cooperate?

  Amid two crises—the pandemic and the national reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd—there have been anguished calls for Americans to come together across lines of race and partisanship...

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  How to Avoid Doing Harm When You Discuss Race at

  The year 2020 has been a rough one, especially for Black Americans. The global coronavirus pandemic’s disproportional impact, combined with multiple police murders of unarmed Black people, cast a brighter..

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  What Is Black Fatigue, and How Can We Protect Employees

  For almost four decades, I have been telling leader after leader about the inequities faced by marginalized groups in their organizations. My diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy, the Winters Group,..

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  How to Be Stronger Co-Parents During the Pandemic

  The coronavirus pandemic has been tremendously stressful, especially for parents. According to the recent American Psychological Association Stress in the Time of COVID-19 survey, parents feel much greater strain than..

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  Happy Again: How To Find Beauty in the Everyday (Encore)

  DACHER KELTNER Hi, I’m Dacher Keltner and this is The Science of Happiness. This week we’re replaying a favorite episode of mine, where we’re joined by Stacy Bare, an Iraq..

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  Ten Keys to Everyday Anti-Racism

  We are sisters—and the great-great-granddaughters of Caroline and Allen, who were born enslaved in the state of Alabama. As African Americans and moms to Black sons, we are heartbroken and..

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  Working Parents Are Angry. But What Can We Do?

  On the first day COVID-19 shut down school for my three children, my husband and I (Yael Schonbrun) went into problem-solving mode. I canceled afternoon private practice patients, and he..

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  Being Selfish Won’t Help Your Career

  The evidence is in: Nice guys and gals don’t finish last, and being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead. That’s the clear conclusion from research that tracked disagreeable people—those with..