Dumbledore said that happiness can be found in the darkest of times “if one only remembers to turn on the light,” and we’re ...

The idea that small acts of kindness can change the world isn’t just a nice sentimental thought — it’s backed by science. A meta-analysis of over 200 studies covering over 198,000 participants found ...

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 ...

When a few passionate community members approached members of the Bexley City School District in Ohio with the idea of teaching kindness, they weren’t sure what form it would take, but they knew it ...

So much social psychology at summer camp. Source: davelogan / Getty Images Signature The moment the 14-year-olds arrived on the first day of sleepaway camp, the subdivisions were clear. At the highest ...

I spend a lot of time analyzing how children and adolescents enact kindness in schools (and in broader family and societal contexts) and there’s a tendency in kindness research toward emphasizing and ...