The Compassionate Instinct

Jason Marsh

Making Peace through Apology

Aaron Lazare

Truth + Reconciliation

Desmond Tutu

Why Is There Peace?

Steven Pinker

The Morality of Global Giving: An Interview with Jan Egeland

Jason Marsh

Global Compassion: A Conversation between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman

The Heroine with One Thousand Faces

Lisa Bennett

The Banality of Heroism

Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo

CONTRIBUTORS

JESS ALBERTS, PH.D., is President’s Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her research interests include conflict, relationship communication, and the division of labor.

 

LISA BENNETT is the communications director for the Center for Ecoliteracy, a nonprofit dedicated to education for sustainable living, and a former fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. She is writing a book about parenting in the age of global warming.

 

CHRISTOPHER BOEHM, PH.D., is a professor of anthropology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California and the author of Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Harvard University Press).

 

CAROLYN PAPE COWAN, PH.D., is a professor of psychology emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, and the codirector, with her husband, Philip A. Cowan, of several long-term projects working with families: the Becoming a Family, Schoolchildren and Their Families, and Supporting Father Involvement projects. She has published many articles and books on family relationships and transitions.

 

PHILIP A. COWAN, PH.D., is a professor of psychology emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the codirector, with his wife, Carolyn Pape Cowan, of several long-term projects working with families. He and his wife also conducted a famed two-decade study of two hundred nuclear families that informed their book When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples (Lawrence Erlbaum). He has served as the director of both the clinical psychology program and the Institute of Human Development at UC Berkeley.

 

PAUL EKMAN, PH.D., is the world’s foremost expert on facial expressions and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He is the author of fifteen books, including, most recently, Emotional Awareness (Times Books), a conversation between himself and the Dalai Lama. He is also a member of Greater Good’s editorial board.

 

ROBERT A. EMMONS, PH.D., has taught in the department of psychology at the University of California, Davis, since 1988. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology

and is the author of THANKS! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton-Mifflin).

 

ZENO FRANCO is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, California. He recently completed a three-year U.S. Department of Homeland Security fellowship.

 

DANIEL GOLEMAN, PH.D., is an internationally renowned author, psychologist, and science journalist, who for twelve years wrote for the New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including the best sellers Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence (Bantam), and writes the “Social Intelligence” column for Greater Good magazine. Goleman has received many awards for his writing, including a Career Achievement award for journalism from the American Psychological Association.

 

LT. COL. DAVE GROSSMAN, a former Army Ranger and paratrooper, taught psychology at West Point and was formerly a professor and chair of the department of military science at Arkansas State University. He is the author of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Back Bay Books), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.