Dacher Joseph Keltner is a Mexican-born American professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He is also the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, host of the podcast The Science of Happiness, and Chief Scientific Advisor of Hume AI. Biography Keltner was born in Jalisco, Mexico, the offspring of two early members of the counterculture. Keltner's mother, a literature professor, and father, an artist, raised both him and his brother in Laurel Canyon in the late 1960s. When his mother secured her first job as a professor in 1970, they moved to a conservative town in the foothills of the California Sierra Nevada. Keltner received his B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1984, he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989, and he completed three years of post-doctoral work with Paul Ekman at the University of California, San Francisco. Academic career Keltner began his academic career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and then returned to University of California, Berkeley's Psychology Department in 1996 attaining full professorship in 2002. His research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, and power, social class, and social inequality. Keltner is the co-author of two textbooks, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, The Compassionate Instinct, and most recently, in May 2016, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. Keltner has published over 190 scientific articles, he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, SLATE, Utne Reader, and has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research. His research has been covered in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and in many other outlets, and been a focus in two panels with the Dalai Lama. His Science of Happiness MOOC at EdX has had over 300,000 enrollees. Keltner has received the outstanding teacher and research mentor awards from UC Berkeley, and seen 20 of his PhD students and post-doctoral fellows become professors. Wired magazine recently rated his podcasts from his course Emotion as one of the five best educational downloads, and the Utne Reader selected Keltner for one of its 50 2008 visionaries. Keltner has collaborated with directors at