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  1. Mindfulness Definition | What Is Mindfulness - Greater Good

    Oct 27, 2025 · Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. …

  2. What Is Love? Scientists Have Answers—But They…

    May 22, 2025 · Previously, psychologists called the subject of their research “interpersonal attraction” or used the lens of attachment. While the term love may call to mind romance or a dyadic relationship …

  3. Happiness Definition | What Is Happiness - Greater Good

    Dec 17, 2012 · Coming up with a formal definition of happiness can be tricky. After all, shouldn’t we just know it when we feel it? In fact, we often use the term to describe a range of positive …

  4. Rather, it is a coherent phenomenological description of the nature of mind, emotion, and su ffering and its potential release, based on highly re fined practices aimed at systematically training and …

  5. Forgiveness Definition | What Is Forgiveness - Greater Good

    Dec 17, 2025 · Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of …

  6. Compassion Definition | What Is Compassion - Greater Good

    Nov 18, 2025 · Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s …

  7. Mind & Body - Greater Good

    Dec 19, 2025 · Mind & Body Articles & More What Makes Human Touch So Special? Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex …

  8. Diversity Definition | What Is Diversity - Greater Good

    Dec 22, 2025 · For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different kinds of people—and the idea …

  9. What Does It Actually Mean to Forgive? - Greater Good

    Jul 7, 2025 · With this definition in mind, it’s easier to overcome some of the hesitations we ourselves may feel about forgiveness—or objections we might hear from others.

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    Dec 10, 2025 · Mind & Body Our Favorite Books of 2025 By Jill Suttie, Jeremy Adam Smith, Kia Afcari, Sahar Habib Ghazi, Kira M. Newman, Hope Reese, Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | December 8, 2025 …