The Power Paradox

How do we get power? How does power change our behavior? Join psychologist Dacher Keltner on November 3rd and learn about how enduring power comes from empathy and giving. 

In this talk Dr. Dacher Keltner will detail the evolution of power over human history and how it influences basic social thought and action and the neurophysiological process. He will conclude by considering today’s political context of inequality and different models of power.

Dr. Dacher Keltner is professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. Dr. Keltner’s research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, emotional expression and power, social class, and inequality. Dacher is the co-author of two textbooks, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, The Compassionate Instinct, and The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence from Penguin Press in 2016. Dr. Keltner has published over 190 scientific articles, he has written for the New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times and Utne Reader, and has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research. He served as a consultant for Pixar’s Inside Out. WIRED magazine recently rated Dr. Keltner’s podcasts from his course “Emotion” as one of the five best educational downloads, and the Utne Reader selected Dr. Keltner for one of its 50 visionaries of 2008.

This event is in partnership with the Bay Area Science Festival.

Sponsored by
Ann and Gordon Getty
Camilla and George Smith