What does one mean by saying an emotion is either positive or negative? When we use the term negative we don’t know which emotion is being referred to. Is it …
Heroic Compassion
Extreme altruism: Why do some people put their own lives at risk to help others?
Rather than being a different type of compassion, heroic compassion is a subset of each of the main forms of compassion: global, stranger, familiar, or familial compassionate actions. The distinguishing …
Building Social Connectedness to Cultivate Our Compassion
How we can move toward a more connected and compassionate world
It has always been a Buddhist tenet that compassion should be cultivated so that it extends to all living beings, not just the members of your family, tribe, or nation; …
Feeling Gratitude and Rejoicing
Dr. Ekman and the Dalai Lama discuss the gratitude emotion and the experience of rejoicing
Excerpt from Emotional Awareness pp. 211-215 Sharing Gratitude Ekman: I would like to mention two other emotions that I think are relevant to the development of compassion. Often, though not …
Compassionate Actions
Exploring the feeling of compassion
January 31, 2018 Why compassionate actions feel good I believe that it is rewarding, literally, to engage in compassionate actions because such acts generate a feeling of compassion joy. It …
Respectful Disagreements
How to Deal with Disagreement
November 29, 2016 What We Care About I suspect that some of us encountered disagreements about the president-elect, the state of the country, the world, and what to do about …
A Force for Good
The Dalai Lama's vision for our world
June 22, 2015 A note from Daniel Goleman: As I was interviewing the Dalai Lama for my book A FORCE FOR GOOD: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World, Paul …
#PictureCompassion: What Compassion Looks Like to You!
Moving towards global compassion
September 9, 2014 We’ve asked our community what compassion looks like to join in on our movement for Global Compassion by participating in our #PictureCompassion campaign. After looking through many …
Global Compassion and the Nigerian Schoolgirls
Compassion in today's world
May 2014 Why Do We Care? Why Do We Watch? There is nothing which ordinarily might catch our eyes: no one is badly injured, or beautifully dressed, or posing in …
Welcome to our new Website!
Improved products and new ways to connect
April 2014 Paul Ekman Group Website I’m Paul Ekman. Welcome to the first post of my blog on our new website! This past year has been exciting as we’ve improved our …