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BORN TO BE GOOD

Dacher Keltner

W. W. NORTON & COMPANY    New York • London
Copyright © 2009 by Dacher Keltner
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN: 978-0-393-07335-5
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TO THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SO MUCH JEN:
THE FAMILY WHO RAISED ME—JEANIE KELTNER, MY MOTHER;
RICHARD KELTNER, MY FATHER; AND ROLF KELTNER, MY BROTHER—
AND THE FAMILY WHO SUSTAINS ME—
MOLLIE MCNEIL, MY WIFE; AND NATALIE AND SERAFINA KELTNER-
MCNEIL, MY DAUGHTERS.
Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1
Jen Science
2
Darwin’s Joys
3
Rational Irrationality
4
Survival of the Kindest
5
Embarrassment
6
Smile
7
Laughter
8
Tease
9
Touch
10
Love
11
Compassion
12
Awe
Notes
Text Acknowledgments
PREFACE

SOME SCIENTIFIC INSIGHTS arise in powerful, fleeting experiences—a startling observation, a dream, a gut feeling, a sudden realization. My own thinking about human emotion has taken a longer course, reflecting the intersection of the long arc of life and the scientific data I have gathered.
I have been led to the idea that emotion is the source of the meaningful life. My mother, an English professor and student of Romanticism, and my father, an artist guided by Lao Tzu and Zen, cultivated in me the conviction that our best attempts at the good life are found in bursts of passion captured in plot turns in the prose on a page or oil layered on a canvas. This idea proved to have the deepest scientific promise in the hands of Charles Darwin, who believed that brief emotional expressions offer clues to the deep origins of our design, and Paul Ekman, who figured out how to bring quantifiable order to the thousands of movements of the face.
Born to Be Good is the product of my family and scientific upbringings, and attempts answers to three age-old questions. The first is: How can we be happy? Legions of recent empirical studies on happiness have led to best-selling books. We have learned about the difficulties of knowing what makes us happy (Dan Gilbert’s St ............

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