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Nightline on the Power of Touch

From ABC News | June 9, 2011

What Dacher Keltner's research reveals about the NBA finals.

View this article at this Web address:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/power-touch-subtle-gestures-boost-performance-study-shows/story?id=13803551

  • Jon Kabat-Zinn, It is a great good and a great gift
    “It is a great good and a great gift, this Greater Good. I bow to you for your efforts to bring these uplifting and illuminating expressions of humanity, grounded in good science, to the attention of us all.”

    ― Jon Kabat-Zinn, author and founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program

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