Born to Be Good with Dacher Keltner

April 8, 2009
Host: Armand DiMele Guests: Dacher Keltner

Is kindness wired into us? UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner draws on evolutionary science and Confucian philosophy to argue that compassion, laughter, and embarrassment are not soft virtues but core adaptive tools. His concept of the jen ratio offers a concrete way to measure how well we bring out the good in others.

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