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Your Happiness Calendar for November 2020

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you protect your mental health at work, at home, and in community. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below. (Please note: If you are having...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2020 8:23 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Inequality Keeps People from Voting

“We’re all in the same boat.” That’s a phrase we’ve heard over and over again since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, we all live under the threat of a deadly disease—and a majority of Americans have adhered to public health guidelines asking...

Published Thu, Oct 29 2020 9:54 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Political Polarization Looks Like in the Brain

How can the partisan divide be bridged when conservatives and liberals consume the same political content, yet interpret it through their own biased lens? Researchers from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University scanned the brains...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2020 8:12 AM by Greater Good Articles

Family Conflict Is Normal; It’s the Repair That Matters

Three months into the pandemic, I had the urge to see my 28-year-old daughter and her husband, 2,000 miles away. She had weathered an acute health crisis, followed by community protests that propelled them both onto the streets to serve food and clean...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2020 5:07 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Humility Can Help Us Bridge Our Political Divides

Many Americans worry about the political divide tearing our country apart. A large percentage are unwilling to engage with people who have opposing political views, and that’s creating more animosity. This is especially worrying considering how many crises...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2020 4:43 AM by Greater Good Articles

The Lost Greek Word That Explains Our Pandemic Emotions

With some communities in rebooted lockdown conditions and movement restricted everywhere else, no one is posting pictures of their sourdough. Zoom cocktail parties have lost their novelty; Netflix can only release so many new series. The news seems worse...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2020 7:17 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can America Make a Course Correction? We’ve Done It Before

The United States is facing a pandemic, civil unrest, climate devastation, and a damaged economy, all in the midst of rising social divisions and political polarization. How can we possibly turn things around and work toward a better future together?...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2020 6:10 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Parents Can Support Children With Special Needs During Distance Learning

Parenting a child with additional learning, attention, social-emotional or behavioral needs has never been easy—and it’s not exactly getting easier. Distance learning and hybrid learning have created a whole new layer of challenge for the approximately...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2020 11:32 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Teachers Can Help Students With Special Needs Navigate Distance Learning

On day four of the second round of distance learning this fall, I saw something on my first-grade daughter’s Zoom meeting that broke my heart—both as a parent and as a school psychologist who supports students with special needs. In a sea of happy little...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2020 7:24 AM by Greater Good Articles

Scientists Are Teaching Young People to Detect Fake News

Soon after the 2016 presidential election, as debates raged over “fake news” and its influence on the outcome, a landmark report from researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education provided sobering evidence of just how easily young people are duped...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2020 4:57 AM by Greater Good Articles

Eight Questions That Can Help You Survive Election Stress

How are you doing? For Americans facing the COVID-19 lockdown and economic instability through the spring and summer, that became a difficult question to ask—and to answer. Things were already pretty bad. And then the presidential election began in earnest...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2020 9:44 AM by Greater Good Articles

Would More Social Justice Make You Happier?

While there is a lot that we can do to increase our own well-being, our social and political environments play an important role in our happiness, too. In particular, research suggests that supportive government policies like health care coverage and...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2020 4:24 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Gratitude Can Help With Students’ Anxiety

Students and educators have started a new school year in the midst of a pandemic, an economic crisis, a reckoning with racial injustice, and a divisive political climate. Everyone’s mental health is at risk, and schools are searching for ways to support...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2020 5:45 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Getting COVID-19 Forced Me to Re-Examine My Life

On April 5, 2020, I started to feel tired in the middle of the day. A couple days later, I found myself trying to catch my breath on a conference call. It was then that I first suspected I might have this new virus that everyone was talking about, COVID...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2020 4:52 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Narcissistic Leaders Make Organizations Less Ethical

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? The answer: not the organizations led by narcissists. A new paper by Berkeley Haas School of Business professor Jennifer Chatman and her colleagues shows not only the profound impact narcissistic...

Published Fri, Oct 09 2020 3:41 AM by Greater Good Articles

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