Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner received his PhD from Stanford University in 1989 and is currently a Professor of Psychology at Berkeley, co-editor of Greater Good magazine, and director of Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. Keltner's research focuses on the evolutionary bases of compassion, awe, embarrassment, gratitude and love, the emotional bases of moral intuition, abuses of power, and the formation of social hierarchies. He is widely known as one of the leading scholars in the study of facial expression. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers, two best-selling textbooks, and all of his major findings have been reported on in the major news outlets including NPR, the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, CNN, the Washington Post and the LA Times. A highly regarded public speaker, he has participated on two scientific panels with the Dalai Lama, and Wired magazine recently rated the podcasts of his course "Human Emotion" as one of the five best in the country.

Antoine Bechara is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and a Professor of Neurology at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on understanding the neural processes underlying how we make decisions and choices, and especially how emotions play an important role in influencing decisions. His research still focuses on understanding the anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological mechanisms of decision-making and their influence by emotions. However, his research also aims at integrating decision neuroscience with research in two key areas: one is mental health, and specifically substance addiction, and smoking; the other seeks to strengthen and expand interdisciplinary research between the fields of neuroscience, management, marketing, and economics, and contribute to the newly emerging fields of neuroeconomics and decision neuroscience.