This post was updated Jan. 28 at 11:00 p.m. While people tend to shy away from contagious things, for the Bedari Kindness Institute’s Contagious Kindness Project, they can be something to embrace – ...

On the Thursday, November 13, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: In honor of World Kindness Day — we’ve partnered with the Humankind team at USA TODAY for a deeper exploration on the topic of ...

High‑frequency brain stimulation that synchronizes frontal–parietal activity led people to choose more generously, suggesting ...

Our behavior seems to be built by evolution, and it's sometimes paradoxical. To borrow from the hard sciences, our behavior exhibits complementarity. We are largely felicitous to our family and ...

Religious beliefs and altruistic acts are strongly linked, according to a new study by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Researchers found that people who said they ...

Recently I began a little experiment to see whether I could do one altruistic act a day. There are many people who do a great many things, so it is often intimidating to think that doing one ...

Why helping others can lead to a more fulfilling life Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Altruism means helping others without expecting anything in return. Small acts of kindness, like holding doors or ...

How would you react if someone cut in line behind you? Some people will warn others to follow the rules, even if it does not affect them. This is known as altruistic punishment, the act of punishing ...