Compassion, Power, and Human Nature with Dr. Dacher Keltner

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Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Does power corrupt? Where does compassion come from? And do positive or negative emotions serve as the basis for our true nature? Today we're exploring these questions with Dr. Dacher Keltner, a world-class expert on emotion, power, and morality. About Our Guest: Dr. Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He’s also the founder and co-director of the Greater Good Science Center. Dr. Keltner is also the author of three books: Born to Be Good, The Compassionate Instinct, and most recently, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. Here's the referenced research from Dacher on emotion and facial expression. Key Topics: 2:15: What is an emotion, and how many emotions are there? 7:45: The complex weave of positive emotions. 11:30: Why did we evolve positive emotions? 15:00: The influence of compassion. 20:45: Power dynamics, and in-groups vs. out-groups. 25:30: How and why power corrupts. 33:30: Are we only nice to other people because we have to be? 38:45: Finding awe in mystery. 44:00: Committing to daily practice. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Sponsors: Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership. Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.4	Hello and welcome to being well I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting well-being. And if you've listened before, welcome
0:17.5	back. I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen, so Dad, how are you doing
0:21.8	today?
0:22.5	I'm really good and I'm very, very happy about our special guest today.
0:25.9	Yeah, as of I, today we're very happy to welcome a wonderful educator and a world-class
0:30.9	expert on emotion, power, and morality to the show, Dr.
0:34.7	Dacker Keltner. Dr. Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of
0:38.8	California Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab.
0:42.4	He's also the founder and co-director of the Greater where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab.
0:43.0	He's also the founder and co-director
0:44.6	of the Greater Good Science Center.
0:46.4	His research focuses on the evolutionary basis
0:48.9	and social functions of emotions,
0:51.0	how social hierarchies form, and how power and status impact our behavior, and how humans
0:55.8	navigate moral judgments.
0:57.6	He's also one of the leading scholars in the study of facial expression.
1:00.6	Dr. Keltner is also the author of three books, Born to Be Good, The Compassionate Instinct, and most recently
1:06.0	the Power Paradox, How We Gain and Lose Influence.
1:09.2	He's published roughly 200 scientific articles, somewhere in that zip code.
1:13.6	He's had his research covered by Time in the Wall Street Journal,
1:16.5	and he even collaborated with Pixar on the film Inside Out,
1:19.4	so it's a very diverse bio.
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