Christine Carter, Ph.D., November 19, 2009.  Socrates in San Francisco hosted a private salon in which Professor Carter discussed what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about the development of healthy confidence, gratefulness, and optimism in children.  Christine Carter, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and a sociologist who is an authority on the childhood roots of happiness.  Carter received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, where she was a Senior Fellow, and her Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley. The Greater Good Science Center is an interdisciplinary research center that promotes the study of happiness in individuals, families, and communities.  Professor Carter's first book, The Other Side of Silence, is one of the books most frequently stolen out of university libraries. Carter has been quoted in American Baby and Parenting magazines, the Boston Globe, the New York Timesand dozens of other publications.  More information on Christine and the Greater Good Science Center at Cal is at www.christinecarter.com and http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/.