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Performing acts of kindness had a larger effect – than performing other social activities, or cognitive reappraisal (CBT) – on life satisfaction, among individuals with anxiety & depression
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A study of 69 romantic couples found that kindness "was positively associated with positive emotions …with feeling appreciated…and with feelings of relationship satisfaction"
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Meditation has a modest effect on prosociality (r=0.26): "Meditation interventions had an effect on compassion and empathy, but not on aggression, connectedness or prejudice."
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"those who are more moral in the eyes of close others, coworkers, and acquaintances generally experience a greater sense of subjective well-being and meaning in life" @JessieSunPsych
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Morality, especially honesty, compassion, and fairness, is the best predictor of "liking, respecting, and knowing a person", because morality is "seen as potentially beneficial to the social perceiver"
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If you build it, they will come. Across the US, opportunities for civic engagement predict prosocial behaviour and mutual aid
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People are more likely to help others who are: (1) in need now, (2) young, (3) female, (4) sad, (5) innocent, (6) members of an in-group, (7) identifiable, (8) a larger proportion of the group in need
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When "200 adults from seven countries received a gift of $10,000…the recipients spent over $6,400 on purchases that benefited others, including nearly $1,700 in donations to charity"
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Five-year-old kids are more likely to share their toys with family members than with friends or strangers
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Kindness is the number one trait women look for in a partner – according to a cross-cultural survey of 17,254 single heterosexual women of all ages, in 147 countries
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Individuals who promote themselves AND others "create more favorable impressions of warmth and competence than those who only engage in self-promotion"
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Older people tend to be more altruistic than younger people (due to greater altruistic motivation, not rising income)
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Being nice – "acting in a warm and friendly way toward others in everyday situations" is a correlate, and a cause, of "happiness, self-satisfaction, relationships satisfaction, [and] life meaning"
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Kindness creates a virtuous circle: "prosocial behavior begets well-being and well-being begets prosocial behavior"
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People are equally as honest in the morning as they are in the afternoon 🕚 HT @daveschester
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Do bystanders standby, or do they come to your aide? The largest systematic study of real-life intervention in actual public conflicts (captured by CCTV) shows that bystanders help 90% of the time
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People everywhere believe that morality (kindness, honesty, respect) has declined. But they are mistaken – according to studies (n = 12,492,983) in 60 countries. In some ways things have never been better. #randomfactsofkindness
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A #metaanalysis of 252 effect sizes from 91 studies across 65 papers (with a total sample size of 18,342 participants) finds that feeling grateful predicts prosociality (r=0.37), especially in direct reciprocal exchanges
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Moral universalists–who are equally kind to in-group & out-group–tend to be younger, female, less wealthy, urban, less religious; donate less money locally, but more globally; but spend less time, with fewer friends, & feel lonelier
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The mother of all morality? Experiments with 15 primate species find that cooperative breeding (care of others' offspring) is the best predictor of prosociality, and provides the simplest explanation for human 'hyper-cooperation' https://t.co/Cjr85CVjCI
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