Dacher Keltner with Michael Pollan / Awe

Booksmith, Berkeley Arts & Letters and UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center present an evening with Dacher Keltner for his book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, in conversation with Michael Pollan on January 23, 2023.

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– ABOUT THE AUTHORS –
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the faculty director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the biological and evolutionary origins of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies the science of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition. His research interests also span issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. He is the author of the best-selling book Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and of The Compassionate Instinct. https://psychology.berkeley.edu/peopl...

Michael Pollan is the author of eight previous books, including How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food,The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. In 2020, he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, which will conduct research using psychedelics to investigate cognition, perception and emotion and their biological bases in the human brain. https://michaelpollan.com/

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