How to Be Kind: 5 Lessions From the Science of Kindness

Psychology Today

For World Kindness Day, Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood reflect on lessons from psychology and neuroscience.

'Saturday, November 13, 2021, is World Kindness Day, a global celebration of good deeds and a reminder to perform acts of kindness to make the world a better place. However, people are not kind all of the time. Selfishness resides in all of us. What can we do to be more kind?’