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  1. Harvard-trained social scientist did acts of kindness for 108 ...

    Jun 18, 2024 · Kasley Killam, an introvert who studied psychology and then got a master's in public health at Harvard, focused on connecting with someone in a meaningful way each day.

  2. Random Acts of Kindness - Social Experiment - YouTube

    Would you be kind to a stranger? Watch our video to discover how the general public reacted when asked to pass on a single yellow flower to a stranger, all i...

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    Feb 9, 2023 · The 7 days of kindness experiment. Oxford University and Kindness.org ran a study to quantify the value of kindness. They found that just seven days of small, random acts of kindness were enough to bring significantly more joy to the study participants’ lives. And the more acts of kindness people were exposed to, the greater the benefits.

  4. The Science of Kindness - The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

    Witnessing acts of kindness produces oxytocin, occasionally referred to as the ‘love hormone’ which aids in lowering blood pressure and improving our overall heart-health. Oxytocin also increases our self-esteem and optimism, which is extra helpful when we’re anxious or shy in a social situation. Natalie Angier, The New York Times

  5. Social Experiments and Studies in Psychology - Verywell Mind

    Mar 15, 2023 · An experimenter might have participants interact with people who are either average looking or very beautiful, and then ask the respondents to rate the individual on unrelated qualities such as intelligence, skill, and kindness. The purpose of this social experiment would be to seek if more attractive people are also seen as being smarter, more ...

  6. Healing through helping: an experimental investigation of ...

    ity, frequency social interaction, and baseline depres-sive symptoms. Altogether, the results of this study suggest that acts of kindness may perform as well behavioral experiments for treating social anxiety, and of kindness may even improve social and positive affect outcomes (i.e., PA, SAG, and RS) better than beha-

  7. Kindness Can Have Unexpectedly Positive Consequences

    Dec 12, 2022 · From one situation to the next, the specific acts of kindness varied. For instance, in one experiment, people wrote notes to friends and family “just because.” In another, they gave cupcakes away.

  8. Healing through helping: an experimental investigation of ...

    Healing through helping: an experimental investigation of kindness, social activities, and reappraisal as well-being interventions Investigators David R. Cregg, Jennifer S. Cheavens

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    Nov 25, 2024 · Holt-Lunstad’s team created the KIND Challenge, where participants committed to performing at least one act of kindness each week for a month. Over 4,000 participants from three countries chose from various types of kindness, such as offering emotional support, performing small acts of service, sharing information or simply connecting with ...

  10. A range of kindness activities boost happiness - PubMed

    This experiment investigates the effects of a seven-day kindness activities intervention on changes in subjective happiness. The study was designed to test whether performing different types of kindness activities had differential effects on happiness. Our recent systematic review and meta-analysis …