Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner is a Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and serves as the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center (http://greatergood.berkeley.edu). His academic research and writing focuses on prosocial emotions and the biological and evolutionary basis of the benevolent affects, including compassion, awe, love, and gratitude. Dacher is the co-author of two best-selling textbooks, one on human emotion, the other on social psychology, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life (2009) and The Compassionate Instinct (2010). Dacher has published over 120 scientific articles, he has written for the New York Times Magazine, The London Times, and Utne Reader, and has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research. His research has been covered in TIME, Newsweek, the New York Times, the BBC, CNN, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and in many other outlets, and been a focus in two panels with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Dacher lives in Berkeley with his wife and their two daughters.