Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center and host of its award-winning podcast, the Science of Happiness.

Dacher’s research focuses on the biological and cultural evolution of compassion, awe, love, beauty, and humility, as well as power, social class, and inequality.  Dacher is the author of about 300 scientific articles (that have been cited over 100,000 times) and several best-selling books, including Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence, and AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life.

Dacher has won many research, teaching, mentoring, and service awards, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has consulted for Apple, Pinterest, Google, the Sierra Club, Carnegie Hall, the National Parks, and the National Gallery, and was a scientific consultant for Pixar’s Inside Out, Soul, and Inside Out 2, and for the Center for Constitutional Rights in its work to outlaw solitary confinement.