The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
Learn research-tested strategies for a happier, more meaningful life, drawing on the science of compassion, gratitude, mindfulness, and awe. Hosted by award-winning psychologist Dacher Keltner. Co-produced by PRX and UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. Follow us on Instagram @HappinessPod.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Science of Happiness podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Your Brain on Art
Ivy Ross
Susan Magsamen
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Original Love, The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening
The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening
Henry Shookman
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Platonic
How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
Marisa G. Franco
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
10% Happier
Dan Harris
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Flourishing Kin
Indigenous Foundations For Collective Well-Being
Yuria Celidwen
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground
Spring Washam
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Catch
The Influencer Series #3
Amy Lea
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How We Heal
Uncover Your Power and Set Yourself Free
Alexandra Elle
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Humanity
Deji Yesufu
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Larger Country
collection of poems
Tomás Morín
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
More Everything Forever
AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Adam Becker
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Spirit of Harriet Tubman
Awakening from the Underground
Spring Washam
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Wild Language of Deer
Susan Glass
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
We Can Do Hard Things
Glennon Doyle
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hilwa's Gifts
Safa Suleiman
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
I Heard There Was a Secret Code
Dan Leventon
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Grizzly years
Doug Peacock
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What My Bones Know
A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
