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    Dacher Keltner

    Dacher Keltner is the Thomas and Ruth Ann Hornaday professor of psychology and the director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught social psychology for the past 18 years and is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Letters and Sciences. His research focuses on the prosocial emotions (such as love, sympathy, and gratitude), morality, and power. Other awards include the Western Psychological Association’s award for outstanding contribution to research, the Positive Psychology Prize for excellence in research, and the Ed and Carol Diener mid-career award for research excellence in social psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2008, the Utne Reader listed Dacher as one of the 50 visionaries changing the world.

    Dacher Keltner

    Dacher Keltner is the Thomas and Ruth Ann Hornaday professor of psychology and the director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught social psychology for the past 18 years and is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Letters and Sciences. His research focuses on the prosocial emotions (such as love, sympathy, and gratitude), morality, and power. Other awards include the Western Psychological Association’s award for outstanding contribution to research, the Positive Psychology Prize for excellence in research, and the Ed and Carol Diener mid-career award for research excellence in social psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2008, the Utne Reader listed Dacher as one of the 50 visionaries changing the world.

    Books by Dacher Keltner

    • The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

      Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith

      Paperback, 2010

      Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.

    • Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

      Dacher Keltner

      Paperback, 2010

      “A landmark book in the science of emotions and its implications for ethics and human universals.”—Library Journal, starred review

    • Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

      Dacher Keltner

      E Book, 2009

      “A landmark book in the science of emotions and its implications for ethics and human universals.”—Library Journal, starred review

    • The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

      Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith

      E Book, 2010

      Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.

    • Social Psychology

      Tom Gilovich, Dacher Keltner, Serena Chen, Richard E. Nisbett

      Sixth International Student Edition, Paperback, 2023

      The science of social psychology delivered as a dynamic, interactive reading experience

    • Social Psychology

      Tom Gilovich, Dacher Keltner, Serena Chen, Richard E. Nisbett

      Sixth International Student Edition, E Book

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