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Jamil Zaki, PhD

Director, Social Neuroscience Lab and Psychology One Program; Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University; Co-Founder, The People’s Science; Author, Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness (Forthcoming) and The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World (2019); Co-Author, "A Brief Intervention to Motivate Empathy Among Middle School Students” (2022, Experimental Psychology), “Social Belonging, Compassion, and Kindness: Key Ingredients for Fostering Resilience, Recovery, and Growth From the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2022, Anxiety, Stress & Coping), and “Empathy as a Moral Force” (2018, Atlas of Moral Psychology)

Events

Teaching Stronger Brains

Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom  February 20-22, 2025

Keynote Address II: Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

Educating with Empathy

The Historic Fairmont Hotel, Atop Nob Hill,
San Francisco, CA  February 15-17, 2019

Keynote Address: A New View on Empathy: How to Hack Our Ability to Understand Others at School and in Life