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# Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

**Brand:** dacher keltner
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- **What is this?** Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by dacher keltner
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## Customer Reviews

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    Nice, optimistic book
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2015*

This book brings up a lot of interesting reasons to why we should be good and that it is natural for us to be. It is a nice, easy read, and very warm hearted. I voted 4 stars because after reading the book, it did not convince me that we were "born to be good", but rather "born good". There is no mention throughout the book of reasons why people would not be good. I happened to take the book in a more literal sense, but it still holds true. There are many situations in people's lives that does not permit them to choose the most righteous path. Perhaps those of us fortunate to be born in a first world country or to a good family has the ability and the means to be good. But those of us born elsewhere, not in the greatest of situations simply can't do that to survive.This is a nice book and is very optimistic about the world. However it does not come it from everyone's perspective.

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    Psychology and Sociology come together
  

*by D***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2009*

Keltner has done a masterful job of showing us how socialization really works.  We are not entirely a blank slate and not entirely not one.  We have a hard-wired capacity to learn language, pretty much everyone knows this by now, but we also have a hard-wired capacity to create community solidarity, and culture.  We are far more inclined to attach and bond than to fight -- within our small community, at least.  Keltner nails down exactly how this manifests bio-chemically.  How the rational part of our brain develops, and can only develop, through social interaction, how it produces chemical rewards when we get it right, and how incredibly adaptive to our environment this makes us.  He hints at, but does not quite explore the idea that when one community dominates and exploits another (where "others" are concerned, the drive to bond competes about equally with the drive to out-survive -- another theme Kelter hints at and might have explored in more depth), the dominators may quite cleverly institute policies that disrupt community connectivity among the dominated.  For example, Puritans proscriptions against hugging, kissing, dancing and singing surely enhanced the ability of controlling elites to manage somewhat demoralized masses.  But the book including this kind of speculation, and many others implied by recent discoveries in attachment and brain plasticity research  remains to be written.  Maybe Kelter will do it

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Renown Scientist Proves It Again
  

*by S***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2009*

Dacher Keltner is renown for his groundbreaking research on emotions and social psychology.  He was a post-graduate student of Paul Ekman who is one of the fathers of facial expressions recognition.Born to Be Good is well researched, much was done in the author's U.C. Berkeley laboratory and with collaborations.  This book has been cited by many other psychologists and other authors as well.Human evolution has instilled the need for high jen ratios, cooperation amongst family and community, gratitude, awe.  Learning and doing what makes us happy enhances our lives.I highly recommend this book and any work by Dacher Keltner.

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