Who knew that mean people could be such great teachers? Sometimes big life lessons come from unlikely places. Source: Creative Commons/Pixabay When I was in college more than 30 years ago, I would ...

If you’re stressed, you’re in good company—at least according to the saying that misery loves company—and based on the huge number of people who share your experience. Levels of stress are at ...

Bayard are being more mindful of showing kindness this holiday season. Second-grade students in Cory Behrens’s classroom are ...

Despite the current state of political tension, kindness is pretty easy to perpetuate, a UCLA study reveals. “Each of us is kind to someone, and therefore have the potential to be kind to everyone, ...

In my senior year at Queen's University in Canada — where I studied psychology before earning a master's in public health at Harvard — I decided to conduct a personal experiment: I'd do an act of ...

Kindness is sometimes dismissed as a simplistic virtue comprised of “being nice.” But how do kids think about kindness—and could understanding kindness help us to teach and promote kindness more ...

Kindness and compassion are considered to be instrumental buffers for the negative effects of stress, thought to be perpetuated by strengthening positive interpersonal connections. Several studies ...

Now, this might be simply the work of one overzealous staffer. Or maybe we’ll learn someone accidentally broke the sign and the nervous supervisor assumed a more sinister explanation. But even if ...

On a crowded Milan subway, a man in a Batman suit quietly stepped into a carriage and, according to new behavioral research, something unusual happened: commuters suddenly became more considerate.