Further Resources

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The following books, articles, films, songs, and websites highlight relevant environmental and social issues.

Books

The Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium. New York, NY: Riverhead Press, 2001.
The Dalai Lama, A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1994.
The Dalai Lama, The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1996.
The Dalai Lama et al., Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1992.
The Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion. New York, NY: Holt, 2009.
The Dalai Lama and Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them? New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2003.
The Dalai Lama and Alexander Norman, Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World. New York, NY: Houghton-Mifflin, 2011.
Sharon Begley, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2007.
Tara Bennett-Goleman, Emotional Alchemy. New York, NY: Harmony Books, 2001.
Jude Cassidy and Philip Shaver (eds.), Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical Applications, Second Edition. New York, NY: Guilford Press, 2010.
Paul Ekman, Moving Toward Global Compassion. San Francisco, CA: Paul Ekman Group, 2014.
Tiffany Field, Touch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Daniel Goleman (ed.), Healing Emotions. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2003.
Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc (eds.), The Dalai Lama at MIT. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Dan Harris, 10 Percent Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2014.
Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2008.
Pico Iyer, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Dalai Lama. New York, NY: Vintage, 2008.
Thupten Jinpa, A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives. New York, NY: Hudson Street Press, 2015.
Sangeeta Kochhar, My Life, My Words: Remembering Mahatma Gandhi. Dehradun, India: Natraj Publishers, 2011.
Stephen Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. New York, NY: Penguin, 2012.
Matthieu Ricard, Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Eliot Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
John Teasdale et al.,Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression. New York, NY: Guilford Press, 2001.
Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Films

Songs

“Give Peace a Chance” / John Lennon
“Imagine” / John Lennon
“Redemption Song” / Bob Marley & The Wailers
“Get Up, Stand Up” / Bob Marley & The Wailers
“For Everyman” / Jackson Browne
“Standing in the Breach” / Jackson Browne
“Blowin’ In the Wind” / Bob Dylan
“The Times They Are a-Changin’” / Bob Dylan
“Better Way’” / Ben Harper
“My Dear Country” / Norah Jones
“If You’re Out There” / John Legend
“Be the Change” / MC Yogi
“Only Love Is Real” / MC Yogi
“War” / Bruce Springsteen
“Send Your Love” / Sting
“Peace on Earth” / U2
“Walk On” / U2
“Compassion” / Lucinda Williams

Websites

Research/Scholarly Articles

Jacob Davis, “Acting Wide Awake: Attention and the Ethics of Emotion.” PhD dissertation, City University of New York, February, 2014.
Lisa Flook, et al. “Promoting Prosocial Behavior and Self-Regulatory Skills in Preschool Children through a Mindfulness-Based Kindness Curriculum.” Developmental Psychology, advance online publication, November 10, 2014.
Linda Gallo and Karen Matthews, “Understanding the Connection between Socioeconomic Status and Physical Health: Do Negative Emotions Play a Role?” Psychological Bulletin, 129, 1, 2003, 10–51.
Antoine Lutz et al., “Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise.” PLoS ONE 3(3): e1897. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001897.
Kevin Ochsner et al., “Rethinking Feelings: An fMRI Study of the Cognitive Regulation of Feeling.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 2002, 1215–1229.
Kristin Neff, “Self-Compassion: An Alternative Conceptualization of a Healthy Attitude Toward Oneself.” Self and Identity, 2: 85–101, 2003.
Emma Seppala et al. “Social Connection and Compassion: Important Predictors of Health and Well-being.” Social Research, 80(2), 2013, 411–430.
Ayse Uskul and A.D. Horn, “Emotions and health.” In J. Wright (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, London: Elsevier, 2015.
Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello, “Altruistic helping in human infants and chimpanzees.” Science, 311, 5765, 2006; 1301–1303. Also, Jennifer L. Goertz et al., “Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review,” Psychological Bulletin, 136, 3, 2020, 351–374.
Helen Y. Weng et al., “Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Response to Suffering.” Psychological Science, 24, 7, 2013, 1171–80.
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler et al., “Development of concern for others.” Developmental Psychology, 28, 1, 1992, 126–136.