On a crowded Milan subway, a man in a Batman suit quietly stepped into a carriage and, according to new behavioral research, ...

Who knew that mean people could be such great teachers? Sometimes big life lessons come from unlikely places. Source: Creative Commons/Pixabay When I was in college more than 30 years ago, I would ...

Kindness and compassion are considered to be instrumental buffers for the negative effects of stress, thought to be perpetuated by strengthening positive interpersonal connections. Several studies ...

Despite the current state of political tension, kindness is pretty easy to perpetuate, a UCLA study reveals. “Each of us is kind to someone, and therefore have the potential to be kind to everyone, ...

In my senior year at Queen's University in Canada — where I studied psychology before earning a master's in public health at Harvard — I decided to conduct a personal experiment: I'd do an act of ...

Random acts of kindness can affect people’s well-being significantly more than expected, according to an August study co-authored by a University of Texas researcher. Based on experiments ranging from ...

AUSTIN, Texas – Even though they often enhance happiness, acts of kindness such as giving a friend a ride or bringing food for a sick family member can be somewhat rare because people underestimate ...

While 'be kind' might sound like a fluffy phrase best left to being painted on dusty pink Instagram post backgrounds, the stats behind it – specifically, those pertaining to the health boosts it can ...

Find Jamil Zaki's kindness challenge here. Coronavirus framed in a different light: we’ll talk about acts of kindness popping up in communities around the country. Rachel from Milton, Mass. is a ...