empathy

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What your feed is feeding you

Does whether a person consumes positive or negative content affect whether they will help someone in need? That question was explored in a fascinating experiment.

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The Science of Positive Empathy

A happiness shared is a happiness doubled. That’s what the science of positive empathy tells us.

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The Stress-Reducing Power of Social Buffering

What really carries us through disruption and challenging times isn’t bandwidth or servers; it’s patience, compassion, kindness, and shared humanity. It’s each other.

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Kindness in the Blood: how helping others reduces inflammation

New research shows that being kind to others impacts genes in a way that reduces inflammation.

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