Dacher Keltner
Psychologist and professor
Dacher Keltner is a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies emotions such as awe and compassion, as well as power.
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American Born in Jalisco, Mexico
About Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner is a Mexican-born American psychologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He leads the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab and is the founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. His research covers emotion, power and social hierarchies. He is regarded as a key figure in building the research field on kind, socially minded feelings, awe and compassion above all, and he has taken that work to a wide public audience. He has written books including Born to be Good, The Power Paradox and Awe. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. In 2026 the Association for Psychological Science gave him the William James Fellow Award, which recognizes a whole career.