About the Author

Dacher Keltner (Ph.D. Stamford University) is a professor of psychology at University of California at Berkeley. He received the 2000 Templeton Positive Psychology Price for Excellence in Research. He is the Director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory, co-editor of Greater Good Magazine, and the founder and Faculty Director of the Great Good Science center at Berkeley.

Keith Oatley (Ph. D. University College London) is a professor in the department of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto. Keith is a member of the Cognitive Science Program at University College London. He is a former President at the International Society for Research on Emotions, a fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of emotion and cognitive psychology.

Jennifer M Jenkins is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She is the co-author, with Keith Oatley, of Human Emotions: A Reader (Blackwell, 1998).