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CONTRIBUTORS
JESS ALBERTS, PH.D., is President’s Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her research interests include conflict, relationship communication, and the division of labor.
LISA BENNETT is the communications director for the Center for Ecoliteracy, a nonprofit dedicated to education for sustainable living, and a former fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. She is writing a book about parenting in the age of global warming.
CHRISTOPHER BOEHM, PH.D., is a professor of anthropology and biological sciences at the University of Southern California and the author of Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Harvard University Press).
CAROLYN PAPE COWAN, PH.D., is a professor of psychology emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, and the codirector, with her husband, Philip A. Cowan, of several long-term projects working with families: the Becoming a Family, Schoolchildren and Their Families, and Supporting Father Involvement projects. She has published many articles and books on family relationships and transitions.
PHILIP A. COWAN, PH.D., is a professor of psychology emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the codirector, with his wife, Carolyn Pape Cowan, of several long-term projects working with families. He and his wife also conducted a famed two-decade study of two hundred nuclear families that informed their book When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples (Lawrence Erlbaum). He has served as the director of both the clinical psychology program and the Institute of Human Development at UC Berkeley.
PAUL EKMAN, PH.D., is the world’s foremost expert on facial expressions and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He is the author of fifteen books, including, most recently, Emotional Awareness (Times Books), a conversation between himself and the Dalai Lama. He is also a member of Greater Good’s editorial board.
ROBERT A. EMMONS, PH.D., has taught in the department of psychology at the University of California, Davis, since 1988. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology and is the author of THANKS! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton-Mifflin).
ZENO FRANCO is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, California. He recently completed a three-year U.S. Department of Homeland Security fellowship.
DANIEL GOLEMAN, PH.D., is an internationally renowned author, psychologist, and science journalist, who for twelve years wrote for the New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including the best sellers Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence (Bantam), and writes the “Social Intelligence” column for Greater Good magazine. Goleman has received many awards for his writing, including a Career Achievement award for journalism from the American Psychological Association.
LT. COL. DAVE GROSSMAN, a former Army Ranger and paratrooper, taught psychology at West Point and was formerly a professor and chair of the department of military science at Arkansas State University. He is the author of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Back Bay Books), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.
JONATHAN D. HAIDT, PH.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Basic Books). His essay draws from his chapter in Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived (American Psychological Association), a book he coedited with Corey L. M. Keyes.
DACHER KELTNER, PH.D., executive editor of Greater Good magazine, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the research director of the university’s Greater Good Science Center. He is the author of more than eighty scholarly articles and three books, most recently Born to Be Good (W. W. Norton).
ALFIE KOHN writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. His essay was originally adapted from Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason (Atria Books) for the Spring/Summer 2005 issue of Greater Good. For more information, see www.alfiekohn.org.
MICHAEL KOSFELD, PH.D., is a professor of business administration at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
AARON LAZARE, M.D., is chancellor, dean, and professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is a leading authority on the medical interview, the psychology of shame and humiliation, and apology. He is the author of many books, including On Apology (Oxford University Press).
FRED LUSKIN, PH.D., is the director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects and an associate professor at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. He is the author of Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness (HarperSanFrancisco) and Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship (HarperCollins).
MEREDITH MARAN is the author or coauthor of eight books, including 50 Ways to Support Lesbian and Gay Equality (New World Library), Dirty: A Search for Answers inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic (HarperOne), and Class Dismissed: A Year in the Life of an American High School, a Glimpse into the Heart of a Nation (St. Martin’s Press). She writes features, essays, and book reviews for Playboy, Self, Real Simple, Mother Jones, Health, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Family Circle, among others. A different version of her essay originally appeared in More magazine.