Compassion, touch, laughter and the vagus nerve. Revisting a timely conversation from 2009 with Dacher Keltner.

Dacher Keltner, author of Born to Be Good, The Science of a Meaningful Life, was a memorable guest on my podcast back in 2009. Today I revisit our conversation from 2009 and play back some of the more poignant, timely and relevant parts that relate to the times we are in. 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. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/profile/dacher_keltner @greatergoodmag www.JulieinConversation.com