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 ...

If you’re stressed, you’re in good company—at least according to the saying that misery loves company—and based on the huge number of people who share your experience. Levels of stress are at ...

On a crowded Milan subway, a man in a Batman suit quietly stepped into a carriage and, according to new behavioral research, something unusual happened: commuters suddenly became more considerate.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Kindness is sometimes dismissed as a simplistic virtue comprised of “being nice.” But how do kids think about kindness—and could understanding kindness help us to teach and promote kindness more ...