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Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Greater Good Science Center, also based at the same university. A renowned expert on the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, he studies the science of compassion, respect, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition. His research also encompasses the themes of power, inequality, and social class. He is the author of... Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and The Compassionate Instinct.