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Stanford Scholar Vies to Become Next Tibetan Prime Minister
Breaking news from the Farm since 1892
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Four Students Named Truman Scholars
Breaking news from the Farm since 1892
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Study: 20% of Americans Have Done Heroic Deeds
Written by Sharon Jayson. New research would seem to support President Obama’s observation Wednesday night in Tucson that “heroism is here, all around us.” Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford University professor emeritus and colleagues used a nationally-repre …
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Zimbardo Begins Heroic Imagination Project
Written by Ellora Israni. Three decades after his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment proved that “terrifyingly normal” individuals can commit alarming atrocities, Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus in psychology, has set out to communicate the opposi …
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Dalai Lama Talks Meditation with Stanford Scientists
Dalai Lama Talks Meditation with Stanford Scientists
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The Dalai Lama and CCARE: The Compassion Report
Written by Jim Gimian. This is Dr. Paul Ekman, co author of Emotional Awareness with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and noted pioneer of facial expression and emotion research, talking with his student/colleague/emotions researcher and Stanford University …
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Dalai Lama Advocates a Secular Approach to Compassion
Written by Cynthia Haven. “I want to stand to see more faces,” the 75-year-old Dalai Lama said, refusing a chair to address the capacity crowd in Maples Pavilion Thursday. There were plenty of them to see. The spiritual leader spoke to about 6,300 peop …
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Why the Dalai Lama Comes to Stanford
Written by Cynthia Haven. The Dalai Lama returns this week on his third visit to Stanford in recent years, but it’s more than palm trees and sunshine that draw him to the heart of Silicon Valley. It’s the research. Stanford’s Center for Compassion and …
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A Quest for Compassion
Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) will study the biological roots of benevolent…this area is tricky business, cautions CCARE co-founder William Mobley, a neurologist and…of the object of study.