The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

by Dacher Keltner and Jeremy Adam Smith

Book Overview

Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness. At the forefront of this revolution in scientific understanding is the Greater Good Science Center, based at the University of California, Berkeley. The center fuses its cutting-edge research with inspiring stories of compassion in action in Greater Good magazine. The best of these writings are collected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393337286
• ISBN13: 9780393337280
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"