Here is a recording of the discussion on the science behind compassion, altruism, and happiness with psychologist Dacher Keltner, founder and research director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley; sociologist Christine Carter McLaughlin, the center’s executive director who researches ways to raise happy children; Jason Marsh, co-editor of Greater Good (http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergood), the center’s magazine; and Slim Shekar, CEO, Clarus Transphase Scientific (www.clarus.com), which conducts research into sympathetic resonance technology and its effects on reducing stress in humans, animals, and plants that took place on August 19, 2007 at the Hillside Club.