Free: Survival of the Kindest Lecture, Dr. Dacher Keltner @ Mind Science

In this talk Dr. Dacher Keltner will detail the latest thinking on how we have evolved to be kind. This thinking will begin with Darwin, cover the latest neuroscience of the pleasures of giving, and detail how contagious kindness is. He will then devote the second half of the talk to concrete, science tested practices by which we can move towards a kinder society.

Dacher Keltner is the Director of the Social Interaction Lab at the University of California at Berkeley and the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, and the author of Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and The Compassionate Instinct. Keltner’s research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, as well as power, social class, and inequality. From examining how we negotiate moral concerns to exploring the determinants of power and status, Dacher Keltner looks at the social practices by which we navigate the world.WIRED magazine recently rated the podcasts of his course “Emotion” as one of the five best educational downloads, and he has collaborated with directors at Pixar and the design team at Facebook. Beyond a substantial body of research published in scientific journals, his work has been covered in numerous media outlets including TIME, Newsweek, the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, and CNN, and has been the focus of two panels with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.