kindness

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3 degrees of contagion – how feelings spread

Happiness is contagious. So is depression. Loneliness is too. As is kindness. You can even gain or lose weight because of a change in someone 3 contacts away.

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The power of counting kindness

Seventy one female students were once asked to count how often they were kind. Now,…

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The Mother Theresa Effect

I was sitting at the window of a coffee shop working on my laptop. I…

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3 ways that being kind can slow ageing

It might sound ‘out there’, but it’s to do with the way kindness feels and how this feeling impacts some very important processes in the body.

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