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What to Do When Your Anger Is Out of Control

It’s disturbing to read in the news about anger run amok. Teachers, librarians, airline employees, and health care workers are targets of verbal and physical abuse, political figures are receiving death threats, security guards are being shot for enforcing...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2022 7:10 AM by Greater Good Articles

Want to Help Kids? Focus on Parent and Teacher Burnout

The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected every facet of our lives, but research is only just beginning to understand its impact on children, families, and educators. Throughout two long years and counting, parents and teachers have continued to...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2022 8:01 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Deepen Our Compassion for Refugees

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, rolling tanks through city streets and targeting homes and schools with missiles, Ukraine’s residents were forced to flee in record numbers. To date, more than 3 million Ukrainians have left the country, and the...

Published Thu, Apr 07 2022 6:17 AM by Greater Good Articles

Two Ways Schools Can Ease COVID-19’s Trauma for Students—and One for Teachers

At the start of the school year last August, I spent several days visiting a first-grade classroom in Austin, Texas, to see how the coronavirus pandemic was impacting teaching and learning after nearly two years of disruption. The academic impact was...

Published Fri, Apr 08 2022 6:09 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Strong Is Your Sense of Purpose in Life?

Do you feel like what you do and who you are in the world matters? Do you have a sense that your actions are meaningful, and contribute to or benefit something that you care about? That’s your sense of purpose. According to research, having purpose staves...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2022 4:06 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Supportive Coworkers Make Your Home Life Easier

There are benefits to being part of a couple in which both are in paid work. A dual income brings, if not necessarily great wealth, at least an element of greater economic freedom, while the relationship can be a source of love and support. But such couples...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2022 3:48 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Keys to Well-Being That May Help You Live Longer

As we get older, we become more prone to serious illnesses, like heart disease, dementia, and cancer. We may become frailer and suffer falls and broken bones or other complications, which ultimately cut our lives short. If we want to live a long, healthy...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2022 3:57 AM by Greater Good Articles

Calm, Clear, and Kind: What Students Want From Their Teachers

There has never been a more challenging time for teachers than in recent years. Educators have been persistently worried about caring for not only their students’ academic learning, but also their students’ social and emotional well-being. The pandemic...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2022 8:13 AM by Greater Good Articles

There’s More to Flourishing Than Individual Tips

“Languishing” is the in-vogue term for today’s widely shared sense of pandemic malaise. According to some psychologists, you can stop languishing with simple steps: Savor the small stuff; do five good deeds; find activities that let you “flow.” Change...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2022 3:50 AM by Greater Good Articles

How War Shapes Our Attitudes About Violence

We’ve all seen the images of violence coming from Ukraine, as the Russian invasion continues. They’re hitting Anastasiia Timmer harder than most of us, because she was born and raised in Ukraine. Now a criminologist at the California State University...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2022 8:55 AM by Greater Good Articles

Two Ways to Help Your Team Feel Heard

According to a 2020 report on the American workforce by the Society for Human Research Management, 30% of respondents said their manager doesn’t encourage a culture of open and transparent communication, and 60% said their manager was the reason they...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2022 6:13 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can We Make Real, Transformative Change in Education?

Education depends on safe, orderly, predictable systems—something that the COVID-19 pandemic undermined. It’s taught many of us how interdependent we all are and how interconnected our systems can be. There are examples on almost every level. Our regional...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2022 5:13 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Happened When Fox News Viewers Watched CNN for a Month

Staunchly conservative Fox News viewers who spent a month tuning in to CNN instead reported a broad shift in their political opinions—until they returned to watching Fox, according to new research (currently under peer review) coauthored at UC Berkeley...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2022 6:12 AM by Greater Good Articles

The Mental Health Consequences of Staring at Yourself on Zoom All Day

In the past few years, people across the world have spent more time on video chat programs like Zoom and FaceTime than ever before. These applications mimic in-person encounters by allowing users to see the people they are communicating with. But unlike...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2022 11:56 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Stay Open and Curious in Hard Conversations

Are you willing to believe that you are wrong about something? I was attending a lecture called “Civil Conversation in an Angry Age” by philosopher David Smith, and he offered a prescription for bridging divides that began with this question. “Is it safe...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2022 6:46 AM by Greater Good Articles

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