16 Facts About Dacher Keltner

Dacher Joseph Keltner is a Mexican-born American professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab.

When Dacher Keltner was in high school, their family relocated to Nottingham, England.

Dacher Keltner's research focuses on the cultural and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, and power, social class, and social inequality.

Dacher Keltner is the co-author of two textbooks, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, The Compassionate Instinct, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence, and most recently, the national bestseller AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life.

Dacher Keltner has published over 230 scientific articles and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, SLATE, Utne Reader.

Dacher Keltner has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research, teaching, and writing, and is a member of the american Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dacher Keltner has collaborated with directors at Pixar, including film director and animator Pete Docter in his films Inside Out and Soul.

Dacher Keltner has worked and continues to work with Facebook engineers and designers on projects such as Facebook stickers and Facebook reactions.

Dacher Keltner has worked on projects at Google on altruism and emotion, and was recently featured in Tom Shadyac's movie I Am.

Dacher Keltner is collaborated with the Sierra Club to get veterans and inner city adolescents outdoors.

Dacher Keltner is the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center,.

In empirical demonstrations of this work, Dacher Keltner has shown that people from more privileged class backgrounds are more likely to drive through pedestrian crosswalks and cheat on tests to win a prize, feel less compassion than those who suffer, and explain their success in terms of their own superior traits.

Dacher Keltner has been a central voice in making the case that emotions serve important social functions, enabling us to fold into relationships vital to survival, like friendships, groups, romantic partnerships, and parent-child attachments.

Dacher Keltner has done work documenting the universality of upwards of 20 distinct facial expressions, the richness with which people can communicate emotion in the voice, and how people communicate emotions like love, compassion, and gratitude through touch.

Dacher Keltner explores the Confucian idea of the jen ratio; the relationship between actions that bring the good of others to completion and those that bring out bad.

Dacher Keltner served as a consultant for the film Inside Out 2 and he is the host of the podcast The Science of Happiness.