Word: keltner
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...Linda Keltner, executive secretary at BU’s Student Activities Office, said that, like Harvard, the university approves 20 to 30 new groups per semester. Many groups, she says, especially special interest groups with a narrow focus, tend to disappear after their founders graduate...
...TELL HIM NOT TO STOP While most of us have suffered the mindless wrath of a schoolyard bully, a study to be released in the journal Psychological Bulletin indicates teasing can be constructive. According to Professor Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, teasing is a form of playful provocation. Most kids do it to show affection and learn social rules. By middle school two-thirds of teasing is done to build friendships...