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Kindness Research
Is kindness science? It can be! There is some evidence that being kind can make a real difference to the well-being and health of individuals who practice it and receive it. Find the latest kindness research here.
Babies help unlock the origins of morality
It's a question people have asked for as long as there have been people: are human beings inherently good? Are we born with a sense of morality or do we...
Acts of Kindness: Key to Happiness for Children & Teens
Most parents and teachers want children to be happy.
To that end, parents find themselves doing things for kids to make them happy, like buying gifts, taking them...
Random Acts Of Kindness Can Make Kids More Popular
In the aftermath of Christmas, a parent could be forgiven for thinking that materialism has trumped human kindness.
Take heart. Children can easily become kinder and more helpful....
Random Acts of Kindness: Teaching Kindness in Schools
Does Kindness matter?
Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Foundation thinks so. RAK has forged a school based pilot in Colorado to assess the implementation of kindness activities in...
Arts and Kindness
Could arts be a ‘superconductor’ for kindness?
Written in association with the Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent, this paper is for...
Is Technology Killing Kindness?
We all know to limit screen time for our kids, but an interesting article by Drew Hendricks posted to Z6 Magazine might cause you to rethink how kids...
The Hidden Power of Smiling
In this TED Talk video, Ron Gutman, founder and CEO of Health Tap, reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know...
Nice Guys Finish First
New York Times Op-ed columnist David Brooks writes on why, scientifically, nice guys can and do finish first.
10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
Need a little inspiration? Read Jen Angel's article in Yes Magazine titled 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy. Her ten suggestions are based on research done...
The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness
Above all, be thankful for your brain’s supply of oxytocin, the small, celebrated peptide hormone that, by the looks of it, helps lubricate our every prosocial exchange, the thousands...
The Human Thriving Foundation
The Human Thriving Foundation was initiated in 2009 to disseminate the findings, the discoveries, as well as the innovations from Happiness360. In their first five-years of scientific inquiry, Happiness360 had concentrated 100%...
Be Happy!
Need some motivation? Need a little zap of happiness? Check out 9 Things You Can Do to Be Happy in the Next 30 Minutes by Gretchen Rubin. It...
Positive Action Program Improves Student Behavior and Test Scores
A study by Oregon State University researchers found that Positive Action, a program that teaches social and emotional skills and character development to elementary school children, can improve academic...
Acts of Kindness Relieves Stress
Read this article by Lauren E. Miller to learn more about how random acts of kindness and an attitude of gratitude can help reduce the stress in your...
Random Acts of Kindness Help Mental Health
Studies show that practicing random acts of kindness improves your overall mental health in addition to benefiting the ones you gift. This article by KJ Mullins highlights the...
Lessons From an Unabashed Optimist
This article by Cheryl Strayed offers some wonderful research supporting the power of kindness in one's life, and how at times one needs to actively pursue happiness in...
Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts
In this article in Scientific American, a psychologist probes how altruism, evolution and neurobiology mean that we can succeed by not being cutthroat. David DiSalvo interviews Dacher Keltner,...
‘Pay It Forward’ Pays Off
UC San Diego and Harvard deliver first experimental findings on spread of cooperation in a social network. Interesting stuff!
Are we wired for kindness?
Recent scientific evidence has found that surprisingly, our brains are actually wired to be benevolent.