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The Daily Echo: We Are Built To Be Kind….January 31, 2024

January 31, 2024

Human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry, but research by UC Berkeley’s Dacher Keltner finds that we are hard-wired to be kind. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1fUWHyY How Power Makes People Selfish:    • How Power Makes People Selfish   Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner challenges this notion of human nature and seeks to better understand why we evolved pro-social emotions like #empathy, compassion and gratitude. We’ve all heard the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, born from the Darwinian theory of natural selection. Keltner adds nuance to this concept by delving deeper into Darwin’s idea that sympathy is one of the strongest human instincts — sometimes stronger than self-interest. FEATURING: Dacher Keltner, professor of #psychology and founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley The research highlighted in this video has been supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute, and the John Templeton Foundation. Berkeley Social Interaction Lab: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/ Greater Good Science Center: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/#psychology#kindness#ucberkeley—————————————­­­­­­————————- Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1fUWHyY Fig. 1 explores new ideas and research out of the University of California — ranging from science, technology, art and humanities. Get inside the mind of a researcher. Find more research at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/

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