Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner is a Mexican-born American psychologist who is Distinguished Professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab and is founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. He is known for establishing the scientific study of prosocial emotions, especially awe and compassion, and for work on love, beauty, embarrassment, gratitude, social class and power. After a Stanford doctorate in 1989 and postdoctoral work with Paul Ekman, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before returning to Berkeley in 1996. With Deborah Gruenfeld and Cameron Anderson he developed the Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power. His books include Born to Be Good, The Power Paradox and Awe, and he consulted on the Pixar films Inside Out and Inside Out 2.