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University of California, Berkeley

Psychology Social Science Social Psychology Emotion Positive Psychology

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5.04/23/2026

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Dacher Keltner is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.A. with highest honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After completing NIMH postdoctoral fellowships at UC Berkeley (1989-1990) and UC San Francisco (1990-1992), he served as Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1992 to 1996. He joined UC Berkeley as Assistant Professor in 1996, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998, and became Full Professor in 2002. Keltner is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, where he also serves as co-director. He hosts the center’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness, and co-instructs its popular online course. With over 200 scientific publications cited more than 112,000 times according to Google Scholar, he is one of the world’s foremost emotion scientists. His research examines the social functions of emotions in relationships, friendships, groups, romantic partnerships, and parent-child attachments, as well as data-driven studies of facial and vocal expressions using machine learning.