February 12, 2016
UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner’s expertise on the science of emotions has been used to enhance the Pixar movie “Inside Out,” as well as Facebook’s selection of emoticons and messaging tools.
Now his emotional intelligence is being tapped to create a kinder and gentler Twittersphere.
Keltner, a psychology professor at Berkeley for 20 years, has been appointed to Twitter’s new “Trust & Safety Council,” an advisory panel tasked with helping to combat trolls, abuse and harassment on the 10-year-old microblogging site. Another academic on the panel is Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.
Read more at Berkeley News | February 12th, 2016: https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/02/12/kinder-twittersphere/