Research

Why Awe Is Such an Important Emotion

by Greater Good Science Center
(August, 2016) Dacher Keltner gives an overview of the young science of awe, from how…
Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner

About the author

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dacher is the host of the Greater Good Science Center’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness and is a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name. He is also the best-selling author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence and Born to Be Good, and a co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct.